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fanfaronade
Synonyms and Antonyms of fanfaronade
boastful speech or writing all his talk of how he would easily win the boxing match turned out to be so much fanfaronade Synonyms bluster, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], cockalorum, bombast, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade (also rhodomontade)Related Words oratory, rhapsody, rhetoric; pomposity, turgidity, wind; bloviation, verbosity, windiness; babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, prattle; jawing, patter, prating, yammering; egotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swagger, vaunt
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