bloviation

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Noun
  • But Sieh is the standout, emitting a complex blend of sardonic acceptance, cynical verbosity and submerged emotional longing.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Coogler can let his characters’ verbosity get the better of story momentum.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
  • His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.
    Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Some of it is certainly unlistenable, but the gems outweigh the drivel.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 23 July 2025
  • But who’s listening to such boring drivel, when the screen is showing a laughing, good-looking woman throwing a birthday party for her dog, complete with doggie birthday cake and balloons?
    Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • There was the usual chatter about 'whether to rest the starters or not', but they good guys weren't going to lay down and hand those cocky Patriots a 16-0 record.
    Geoffrey Knox, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • The Broadway producer also responds and then shuts down the recent social media chatter about the years-old debacle.
    John Lawson, Essence, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • His tirades against Ukraine stood out for their bloodthirsty rhetoric.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 17 July 2025
  • While democratic Taiwan has long been used to those threats, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the increasingly shrill rhetoric from Chinese leader Xi Jinping and conflict in the Middle East have thrown into sharp relief what could be at stake if peace falters.
    Will Ripley, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2025
  • Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.
    Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Noun
  • Today's teen slang might seem like complete gibberish, but you may be surprised by how many terms echo phrases from the past.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 3 June 2025
  • Teachers have banned it from the classroom after kids disrupted lessons by reciting its signature gibberish, Parents reports.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
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“Bloviation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloviation. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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