Blustering

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind..

Definitions by Sense

1. A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.
2. Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.
3. Engaged in or involving the process of blustering, speaking or protesting loudly.
4. Pompous or arrogant in one's speech or bearing.
5. Very windy; (of wind) blowing very strongly, blustery.
6. present participle and gerund of bluster

Example Sentences

He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the blustering of the winds […]

Boasting and blustering are as objectionable among nations as among individuals, and the public men of a great nation owe it to their sense of national self-respect to speak courteously of foreign powers just as a brave and self-respecting man treats all around him courteously.

Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.

In Moscow, where parties are judged by the quantity and quality of Russian officials who attend, the U.S. party was a smashing success. Some attributed it to the popularity of Ambassador Thompson, others felt it was another sign that coexistence is still Soviet policy in spite of Khrushchev’s blustering.

Generally, you know, I’m conspiracy-theory-phobic. But in this case, all Amis’s blustering about how he’s ill-treated seems to mask the reality of a completely simpering attitude to our greatest living novelist utterly regardless of the quality of his literary output.

But when we began to renue our old acquaintance, and to shake the handes of discontinued familiaritie, alas, good Gentleman, his mandillion was ouercropped, his witt paunched like his wiues spindle, his art shanked like a lath, his conceit as lank as a shotten herring, and that same blustering eloquence as bleake and wan as the Picture of a forlorne Loouer.

Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoilt-child of a semi-barbarous age.

For once Babbitt did not break out in blustering efforts to keep the party going.

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• blusterings
• more blustering
• most blustering

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