as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
another gassy speech by a long-winded politician
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Recent Examples of gassy
Thankfully, Midas is now fully recovered from his gassy ordeal, and is back to his usual self, running around the house and enjoying life.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
The discards soon ended up in a massive tank that mimics a cow’s digestion — minus the release of gassy byproducts — where they were turned into compost and renewable energy.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2025
Imagine being trapped in tight quarters with a gassy old sailor.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
The exoplanets as puffy as cotton candy Super-puff planets have tiny cores and thick gassy coats of hydrogen or helium, such that their overall density is as light as cotton candy.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
The discards soon ended up in a massive tank that mimics a cow’s digestion — minus the release of gassy byproducts — where they were turned into compost and renewable energy.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2025
Imagine being trapped in tight quarters with a gassy old sailor.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
The exoplanets as puffy as cotton candy Super-puff planets have tiny cores and thick gassy coats of hydrogen or helium, such that their overall density is as light as cotton candy.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gassy
Adjective
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But Chicago and New York are Democratic strongholds and frequent targets of the president’s rhetorical ire, so the moves on spending are plainly perceived as a new front in the shutdown battle.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
5 Oct. 2025
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Every argument has a rational, emotional, and rhetorical component.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Mayor and Queloz had been expecting to find planetary systems with architectures like that of our solar system, with the smaller rocky planets closer to their star and larger gaseous worlds farther away.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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All living things need the element to make biomolecules such as DNA, but most species can’t make use of the N2 molecule, nitrogen’s gaseous form.—
Katherine Bourzac,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Gassy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gassy. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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