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as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard
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as in braggart
someone who boasts
a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else
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Recent Examples of blowhard
Another film critic shaking his fist at the sky isn’t going to change anything — shaking their fists at the sky and not changing things is basically 90% of what those blowhards get paid to do these days.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
Even with five years of distance from the lockdown era, a movie that captures the friction between Black Lives Matter activists and anti-masking blowhards is guaranteed to tick people off, especially one that satirizes both camps as a way of indicting American culture at large.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 18 July 2025
Tech interviews are 80% an opportunity for some blowhard at the company to impress their skill on you.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 3 July 2025
Members include a vicar with a lurid fantasy life, a clever and stifled housewife, a sorrowful retired accountant and a blowhard.
—New York Times, 3 May 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
Even with five years of distance from the lockdown era, a movie that captures the friction between Black Lives Matter activists and anti-masking blowhards is guaranteed to tick people off, especially one that satirizes both camps as a way of indicting American culture at large.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 18 July 2025
Tech interviews are 80% an opportunity for some blowhard at the company to impress their skill on you.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 3 July 2025
Members include a vicar with a lurid fantasy life, a clever and stifled housewife, a sorrowful retired accountant and a blowhard.
—New York Times, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowhard
Noun
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Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Sep. 2025
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Even aside from Trump’s own enthusiastic personal immorality and impiety, his political style — the pugnacious smear artist and demagogic braggart — was the antithesis of what evangelicals had sought before.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
23 Sep. 2025
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Stephen Graham used the word 'magpie' the other day, which is so great.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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Even the film’s animal characters, the tiger and magpie, are inspired by Korean folk painting.—
Claire Wang,
NBC news,
12 Oct. 2025
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The story is told from Dah’s perspective, as Jocelyn—who displays a quasi-mystical rapport with fighting cocks—suffers an emotional breakdown, putting their business and their lives in danger.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
26 July 2024
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The former became fighting cocks and the latter became sows.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
6 June 2023
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Which is the unstoppable windbag destined to monopolize conversation at breakfast?—
Guy Trebay,
Travel + Leisure,
15 July 2025
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When a self-important young windbag named Bartow (played to perfection by Jackson Kelly) rather reasonably asks Hank to say something — anything — the latter launches into a scathing but accurate sendup of Bartow’s writing and accuses him (and the student population, and the college) of mediocrity.—
Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
18 Mar. 2023
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Such a windup suggested that a rerun of their infamous 2020 debate was coming, with Trump casting himself in the role, once again, of rogue gasbag.—
Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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Trump, now with the gasbag winds from TV commentary at his back, may indeed win the nomination in 2024.—
Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
6 June 2023
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Removal of fallen leaves from planter beds, whether by blower or rake, is ill-advised.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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Among Cederquist’s chump-change payoffs, in addition to the candy, were bottled water, a snow blower and a granite mailbox.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Blowhard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowhard. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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