BLUSTERED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

blustered

verb

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past tense of bluster

as in huffed

to talk loudly and wildly the rude customer blustered and yelled threats about lawsuits, but eventually left

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Recent Examples of blustered Trump blustered and lied and displayed himself in the worst possible light, of course, but Reza Pahlavi, the Shah’s son who lives in the United States and who many Iranians had reluctantly come to regard as a possible leader, also played his hand extremely badly. —

Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 16 May 2026 Trump has blustered, contradicted himself publicly, ramped-up rhetorically and then backed down, mostly without receiving obvious concessions. —

Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026 The administration also has ordered a massive military buildup in the Caribbean and blustered about regime change given the nation’s awful socialist leader. —

The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025

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huffed

Verb

Difluoroethane is a gas often used in cans of compressed air, which can be huffed to produce a high, while alprazolam is the generic form of brand-name Xanax.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Isaac Hayden huffed and puffed but received little support from Blackpool’s Karoy Anderson.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2026