flatulent

adjective

ˈfla-chə-lənt How to pronounce flatulent (audio)
Definition of flatulentnext
as in rhetorical
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases on election night TV's self-important pundits let loose a fusillade of flatulent pontifications

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Recent Examples of flatulent Now in its fifth season, the Apple TV drama follows a gang of screw-up spies who are nobody’s idea of the Avengers, led by Gary Oldman’s irascible, flatulent Jackson Lamb. — Alison Herman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025 Our foul, flatulent father-figure may exaggerate a bit when belittling his enemies (and friends, for that matter), but cloaked under his aura of filth — like an adult Pig-Pen’s toxic dust cloud — rests a core truth. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025 Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb in the series, the curmudgeonly and flatulent chief of Slough House where all the MI5 misfits are sent. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy. — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flatulent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatulent
  1. rhetorical
  2. inflated
  3. gaseous
  4. gassy
  5. pontifical
  6. bombastic
Adjective
  • Wagner’s sixty-page bid offered little more than a rhetorical embrace of the Administration’s immigration policies.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • Rather than simply suggesting Talarico is weak on border security or inflation economics, Paxton’s campaign has taken a different rhetorical approach.
    — David Rooney, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
Definition of rhetorical
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  • Bruneau moved in with her boyfriend and told her family that Larry Brown was pressuring her to sign fraudulent insurance documents with inflated repair costs, according to the affidavit.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
  • Negative Orkin Pest Control reviews complain about the company’s aggressive sales tactics and solicitation, services not working as advertised and some issues with inflated pricing.
    — Dan Simms, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Definition of inflated
Adjective
  • Prioritize the allocation of available funds for the maintenance of common-use launch infrastructure, including roads, electricity distribution, and gaseous pipelines and resource reserves.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • The solution for this is to construct a new gaseous nitrogen system to supplement the existing capacity, but the $25 million project is currently unfunded.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 22 June 2026
Definition of gaseous
Adjective
  • Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman, known to fans of AppleTV series Slow Horses as the shambolic, gassy spy Jackson Lamb, will be honored at this year Edinburgh Television Festival with the fest’s lifetime achievement honor, the Golden Icon Award.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • The Times first reported back in 2024 that the attraction’s gassy cars would be on the way out by the end of 2026.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Definition of gassy
Adjective
  • Leo opened his visit to Pompeii by meeting with sick and disabled people who are cared for by a charity center affiliated with the sanctuary, which Leo’s namesake, Pope Leo XIII, declared a pontifical basilica in 1901.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • That public spat has overshadowed his pontifical tour of four African countries, which ended Thursday with a Mass for thousands of people in Malabo, the former capital of Equatorial Guinea.
    — Claudio Lavanga, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of pontifical
Adjective
  • Emboldened by her sudden fame, Tyler signed to Sony in the early 1980s and, anxious to reinvent herself, petitioned the bombastic songwriter Jim Steinman to plot her a pivot to arena rock.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
  • Clive was big, and bombastic, and brave, and full of ideas, and just believed, believed, believed, believed.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
Definition of bombastic

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