variants also rhodomontade

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rodomontade
Noun
  • Her Bluesky feed in the hours after Kirk’s murder was filled with inflammatory rhetoric.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
  • While detailing the first in-person meeting between her and Rodríguez, Pascal spoke about the specific rhetoric that trans actors sometimes come up against, which is that trans actors should connect with trans subjects based solely on identity, rather than the many other aspects of their humanity.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hammy magniloquence risks alienating viewers, not just for an evening but for life, as does obscurity.
    The Economist, The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • 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
  • This display exposes the campaign’s braggadocio.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.
    Michael Nordine, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • Hoffman makes Ari all zingers and bluster, clearly masking an internal roiling in his brain, while Feldman has mastered the tightly wound nerd.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The bluster and bravado seemed completely out of step with how Red State lawmakers are heading into a flu season when risk of Covid steps up.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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