variants
also rhodomontade
as in rhetoric
boastful speech or writing
for all of its jingoistic rodomontade, the government had no thought-out plan for the war and its aftermath
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With tariff rhetoric back at the forefront, analysts warned sentiment could quickly unravel.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025 -
None of this is helped by the last few years of fiery political rhetoric around transgender youth.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Hammy magniloquence risks alienating viewers, not just for an evening but for life, as does obscurity.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
15 Mar. 2018
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The album is a hot mess of conflicted emotions, empty braggadocio, poor technique, and heartbreaking yet tiresome crying jags.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
29 Sep. 2025
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The first singles from Carey’s 16th album are dripping with braggadocio with her inimitable voice wafting like smoke.—
Matthew Schnipper,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
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Much of that singularity was centered in McCarthy’s prose, which ricocheted—sometimes gracefully, sometimes jarringly—between gruff matter-of-factness and soaring, biblical grandiloquence.—
Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
13 June 2023
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Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.—
Michael Nordine,
Variety,
11 Aug. 2022
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Trump, for all his bluster, couldn't move Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, nor stop Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from escalating the war in Gaza.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Oct. 2025
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The problem is the fans could see through the bluster and saw his excuses as a denial of reality.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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His early career was marked by the sort of gasconade many fans of the NFL had come to adore and many MLB executives and players had come to loathe.—
Robert Klemko,
The MMQB,
13 July 2017
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“Rodomontade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rodomontade. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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