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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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Larger balloons were connected to the ground by telegraph wires to speed the delivery of intelligence, which had to be fast, as the tethered gasbags were sitting ducks for Confederate fire.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
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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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China’s DeepSeek calls for AI ‘whistle-blowers’ on job losses.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
11 Nov. 2025
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In addition to the water issues, the handwash sink was bereft of soap, paper towels or any mechanical hot air blower.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Blowhard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowhard. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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