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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for blowhard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowhard
Noun
  • Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Stephen Graham used the word 'magpie' the other day, which is so great.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Even the film’s animal characters, the tiger and magpie, are inspired by Korean folk painting.
    Claire Wang, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The former became fighting cocks and the latter became sows.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
Noun
  • Which is the unstoppable windbag destined to monopolize conversation at breakfast?
    Guy Trebay, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Removal of fallen leaves from planter beds, whether by blower or rake, is ill-advised.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • 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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