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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Opponents argue the laws sanction discrimination and the exclusion of a vulnerable minority group and that rhetoric produced in these debates can stigmatize the transgender community.—
Sam Gringlas,
NPR,
10 May 2025 -
But despite hope for mediation, rhetoric turned personal Friday when NJ Transit President Kris Kollouri took a swipe at Haas’ memory.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2025
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Latto popped up first on the track, bringing some braggadocios bars before G Herbo jumped in with his rambunctious energy.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
30 Apr. 2025
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Taylor-Johnson and Gosling have a lot of fun with Tom’s braggadocio and Colt’s deadpan replies when the star actor and his stunt double finally face off.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2024
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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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The bluster, the flip-flopping, the tariffs slapped on islands inhabited only by penguins — these are all moments.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps Thursday’s threat was just a bit of bluster from a president prone to tantrums — a one-off social media post that his more stable advisers will surely try to rein in to avoid an all-out panic.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Rodomontade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rodomontade. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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