as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
a bombastic speech intended to impress the voters in her congressional district
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Recent Examples of bombastic
Ninja Gaiden 4, co-developed by Team Ninja and Platinum Games, has two protagonists: the young, bombastic Yakumo and the brutally efficient veteran Ryu.
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Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
Advertising was bombastic, aggressive, loud and macho.
—Candace Oehler, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
His bombastic claims aside, Trump inherited a solid economy that had grown steadily despite high interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve to fight inflation.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2025
But the echoes of ’70s Queen at their most bombastic and the early ’00s style dance-break, which allows Adonxs to embrace his inner Jennifer Lopez, ensures it just about avoids such territory.
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—Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 13 May 2025
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Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
Advertising was bombastic, aggressive, loud and macho.
—Candace Oehler, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
His bombastic claims aside, Trump inherited a solid economy that had grown steadily despite high interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve to fight inflation.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2025
But the echoes of ’70s Queen at their most bombastic and the early ’00s style dance-break, which allows Adonxs to embrace his inner Jennifer Lopez, ensures it just about avoids such territory.
29.
—Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bombastic
rhetorical
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Trump’s rhetorical bombing raids against Fed Chair Jerome Powell could backfire spectacularly on Asia.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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There are two different models for dealing with this reality, approaches that can broadly be described as strategic and rhetorical.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
25 June 2025
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“Bombastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bombastic. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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