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Definition of bluster in English: blusterverb ˈblʌstəˈbləstər [no object]1Talk in a loud, aggressive, or indignant way with little effect. you threaten and bluster, but won't carry it through with direct speech ‘I don't care what he says,’ I blustered Example sentencesExamples - He has been blustering for decades that you can control people if you just hit them hard enough and cow them.
- He cussed and blustered and took the second option.
- When governments bluster, then citizens grow powerful.
- The more they blustered, the more unconvincing they sounded.
- I blustered on for a bit, but after a while I had to admit that when you thought about it - as opposed to shooting from the lip - it did make sense.
- My own view would be to let him bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants, and let that be a matter between he and his own country.
- Jay started blustering around telling anyone who'd listen, and there weren't many volunteers, that the mess from the earlier food fight would have to be cleared up.
- He blustered and ranted, and I merely watched him like a parent and a child with a temper.
- I bet if I excused myself to go to the bathroom, he would still be blustering when I got back.
- ‘Very, very few,’ Clarke finally blustered, to a snort from his interviewer.
- The government blustered, threatened, and finally publicly admitted that the students were right.
- ‘Well,’ she blusters, ‘we've tried to add more depth and twists to our styles and fits to reinvent the market for younger customers.’
- ‘Well, I'm sorry,’ I blustered, ‘But I really don't have any more change.’
- ‘Yeah, but, there's not much work out there for people in your field at the moment, something might come along next week that would be great for you and you'd miss out,’ he blusters.
- He blustered on about my trespassing gall, how I'd unsettled his half-starving cattle.
- Howard blustered about mad officials meddling in people's lives and undermining plain common sense and individual responsibility.
- Although he blustered about a ‘show trial’ and a ‘kangaroo court’, he was devastated to be thrown out of the party.
- ‘This is the end of phase one of this fight,’ he blusters, ‘but the fight will go on and we will be in it together.’
- And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
- ‘Young chap over there,’ he blusters, gesturing towards the panoramic windows with his drink.
Synonyms rant, thunder boast, brag, swagger, throw one's weight about/around, be overbearing, lord it, vaunt, bray, crow 2(of a storm, wind, or rain) blow or beat fiercely and noisily. a winter gale blustered against the sides of the house Example sentencesExamples - The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude.
- The wind blustered as she made her way to the quiet edge of the garden.
- Fur stroked against his nose as several other dogs joined them behind the sled, the only thing that protected them from the blustering wind.
- Anyway, this river just happens to be where the climate is all windy and blustering so the currents lap at you and force you to go into the opposite direction, no matter how hard you try to fight against it.
- The arctic wind blustering over the Baltic Sea is biting, teeth-chattering cold.
- A high wind blustered around the house and roared in the chimney.
- By now, though, the wind was gathering itself for a grand, blustering, trouserflapping finale and the last four holes would be brutal.
- Throughout the blustering winds parting the tall grass, a figure darted through the brush, and just like that moved as fast as the bolts of lightening above.
- A hot wind blustered up the track, informing her that the train was arriving.
- The patio doors rattled and shook as the wind blustered and howled.
- The weather begins to turn foul, with high winds and blustering rainsqualls, and because we laid over a day at the Judith to swim and loaf we begin to feel pressed to make time.
- The burglar causes me to bark, that and the sheer pleasure of resounding, when the torches flare and the winds bluster.
- The only draw back on that evening was the blustering wind, which with the seven pound mainline I was using, made the almost weightless end tackle difficult to cast more than about fifteen yards.
- The only sounds we could hear were the blustering wind, and fluttering paper pressing against ruined hedges and walls.
- The rain blusters under the roof and I think I feel the bridge collapsing under me.
- The lake's deep green coloration derives from its high concentration of cobalt and other minerals, and is particularly striking when the frequent winds bluster the surface into a froth.
- When the blustering wind and swirling snow make sledding and building snowmen feel like work, ditch your icy mittens and spend the afternoon by a warm stove, sipping hot chocolate and munching on cookies.
- The grass on the top was long and swayed in the winds that blustered over the downs.
- A draught from Antarctica blustered across the airfield.
- The unpredictable Missouri weather lived up to its formidable reputation as it blustered all week.
Synonyms blow fiercely, blast, gust, storm, roar, rush
noun ˈblʌstəˈbləstər mass nounLoud, aggressive, or indignant talk with little effect. their threats contained a measure of bluster Example sentencesExamples - ‘Their bluster had gone on for hours,’ Edmond mutters.
- The rest of the speech consisted largely of jingoistic bluster and attempts at political intimidation.
- The first was its obvious lunacy, the immensity of the concept ‘millennium’ causing much bluster in pundits and presenters alike as it became clear the public had absolutely ignored it.
- Bravado, bluster, and empty threats were, after all, only useful to a certain degree.
- Despite this, the cast members manage to make each character a believable one, with an individual personality, and show that beneath the bravado and bluster and laddish behaviour, there lurks a decent human being.
- Privately, some government officials dismiss the reaction as bluster, exaggerating the impact to win a better deal for the company.
- The answer, it turns out, has something to do with excess humbug production and a decline in the exchange rate between bluster and bombast.
- Residents said they dismissed the crowing as bluster, but noticed a dramatic change in his life in ensuing weeks.
- The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio.
- I have the suspicion that all their albums sound exactly the same, though - and that all of the songs are really the same minor-key psuedo-tuneful bluster.
- The children are true to their later personalities as teens: Freddie is full of bluster and bravado, Daphne is girly and vain, and Velma is nerdy.
- No amount of imperial bluster, disciplined armies or powerful artillery trains could impress these hardened tribes.
- If he did he'd have surely come up with better arguments than bluster and bombast.
- Funny how these things quickly deteriorate into name calling and bluster when met with the opposite viewpoint.
- The ‘all options’ caveat refers to action short of war, if it isn't in fact merely bluster, which I think more likely.
- Self-reference - not to speak of bluster or bragging - was at the zero level, as were all other forms of showmanship.
- It is my belief that if the majority of ratepayers adopted this fair and reasonable action we would regain our status and rights, put an end to the usual city council bluster and, most importantly, see a return of public accountability.
- They are good at justifying their actions with bluster and obfuscation so that it sounds like they had no choice and that ‘it was for our own good’ rather than the reality which is that it is for their own good and their egos.
- For all their bluster and bombast, each display of physical power proves in the end to be ineffectual.
- The bluster, the straining for effect, the attempt to live up to a grandiose reputation of their own making - all these are absent.
Synonyms ranting, hectoring, thundering, threatening, threats, bullying, domineering boasting, bragging, swaggering, throwing one's weight around bombast, bravado, bumptiousness, imperiousness empty threats, humbug literary braggadocio
Origin Late Middle English: ultimately imitative. Rhymes adjuster, Augusta, buster, cluster, Custer, duster, fluster, lustre (US luster), muster, thruster, truster Definition of bluster in US English: blusterverbˈbləstərˈbləstər [no object]1Talk in a loud, aggressive, or indignant way with little effect. you threaten and bluster, but won't carry it through with direct speech “I don't care what he says,” I blustered Example sentencesExamples - When governments bluster, then citizens grow powerful.
- ‘Very, very few,’ Clarke finally blustered, to a snort from his interviewer.
- ‘Young chap over there,’ he blusters, gesturing towards the panoramic windows with his drink.
- My own view would be to let him bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants, and let that be a matter between he and his own country.
- Howard blustered about mad officials meddling in people's lives and undermining plain common sense and individual responsibility.
- He has been blustering for decades that you can control people if you just hit them hard enough and cow them.
- ‘This is the end of phase one of this fight,’ he blusters, ‘but the fight will go on and we will be in it together.’
- Jay started blustering around telling anyone who'd listen, and there weren't many volunteers, that the mess from the earlier food fight would have to be cleared up.
- The government blustered, threatened, and finally publicly admitted that the students were right.
- Although he blustered about a ‘show trial’ and a ‘kangaroo court’, he was devastated to be thrown out of the party.
- ‘Well, I'm sorry,’ I blustered, ‘But I really don't have any more change.’
- And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
- He blustered on about my trespassing gall, how I'd unsettled his half-starving cattle.
- ‘Well,’ she blusters, ‘we've tried to add more depth and twists to our styles and fits to reinvent the market for younger customers.’
- He cussed and blustered and took the second option.
- The more they blustered, the more unconvincing they sounded.
- I blustered on for a bit, but after a while I had to admit that when you thought about it - as opposed to shooting from the lip - it did make sense.
- ‘Yeah, but, there's not much work out there for people in your field at the moment, something might come along next week that would be great for you and you'd miss out,’ he blusters.
- I bet if I excused myself to go to the bathroom, he would still be blustering when I got back.
- He blustered and ranted, and I merely watched him like a parent and a child with a temper.
- 1.1 (of a storm, wind, or rain) blow or beat fiercely and noisily.
a winter gale blustered against the sides of the house Example sentencesExamples - A high wind blustered around the house and roared in the chimney.
- By now, though, the wind was gathering itself for a grand, blustering, trouserflapping finale and the last four holes would be brutal.
- The unpredictable Missouri weather lived up to its formidable reputation as it blustered all week.
- The rain blusters under the roof and I think I feel the bridge collapsing under me.
- The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude.
- Throughout the blustering winds parting the tall grass, a figure darted through the brush, and just like that moved as fast as the bolts of lightening above.
- The only sounds we could hear were the blustering wind, and fluttering paper pressing against ruined hedges and walls.
- The wind blustered as she made her way to the quiet edge of the garden.
- When the blustering wind and swirling snow make sledding and building snowmen feel like work, ditch your icy mittens and spend the afternoon by a warm stove, sipping hot chocolate and munching on cookies.
- The grass on the top was long and swayed in the winds that blustered over the downs.
- Fur stroked against his nose as several other dogs joined them behind the sled, the only thing that protected them from the blustering wind.
- A draught from Antarctica blustered across the airfield.
- The only draw back on that evening was the blustering wind, which with the seven pound mainline I was using, made the almost weightless end tackle difficult to cast more than about fifteen yards.
- The patio doors rattled and shook as the wind blustered and howled.
- The arctic wind blustering over the Baltic Sea is biting, teeth-chattering cold.
- The burglar causes me to bark, that and the sheer pleasure of resounding, when the torches flare and the winds bluster.
- The lake's deep green coloration derives from its high concentration of cobalt and other minerals, and is particularly striking when the frequent winds bluster the surface into a froth.
- The weather begins to turn foul, with high winds and blustering rainsqualls, and because we laid over a day at the Judith to swim and loaf we begin to feel pressed to make time.
- A hot wind blustered up the track, informing her that the train was arriving.
- Anyway, this river just happens to be where the climate is all windy and blustering so the currents lap at you and force you to go into the opposite direction, no matter how hard you try to fight against it.
Synonyms blow fiercely, blast, gust, storm, roar, rush
nounˈbləstərˈbləstər Loud, aggressive, or indignant talk with little effect. their threats contained a measure of bluster Example sentencesExamples - ‘Their bluster had gone on for hours,’ Edmond mutters.
- Bravado, bluster, and empty threats were, after all, only useful to a certain degree.
- Residents said they dismissed the crowing as bluster, but noticed a dramatic change in his life in ensuing weeks.
- The answer, it turns out, has something to do with excess humbug production and a decline in the exchange rate between bluster and bombast.
- If he did he'd have surely come up with better arguments than bluster and bombast.
- The rest of the speech consisted largely of jingoistic bluster and attempts at political intimidation.
- Self-reference - not to speak of bluster or bragging - was at the zero level, as were all other forms of showmanship.
- They are good at justifying their actions with bluster and obfuscation so that it sounds like they had no choice and that ‘it was for our own good’ rather than the reality which is that it is for their own good and their egos.
- Funny how these things quickly deteriorate into name calling and bluster when met with the opposite viewpoint.
- No amount of imperial bluster, disciplined armies or powerful artillery trains could impress these hardened tribes.
- I have the suspicion that all their albums sound exactly the same, though - and that all of the songs are really the same minor-key psuedo-tuneful bluster.
- The ‘all options’ caveat refers to action short of war, if it isn't in fact merely bluster, which I think more likely.
- For all their bluster and bombast, each display of physical power proves in the end to be ineffectual.
- The children are true to their later personalities as teens: Freddie is full of bluster and bravado, Daphne is girly and vain, and Velma is nerdy.
- Despite this, the cast members manage to make each character a believable one, with an individual personality, and show that beneath the bravado and bluster and laddish behaviour, there lurks a decent human being.
- The bluster, the straining for effect, the attempt to live up to a grandiose reputation of their own making - all these are absent.
- Privately, some government officials dismiss the reaction as bluster, exaggerating the impact to win a better deal for the company.
- The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio.
- It is my belief that if the majority of ratepayers adopted this fair and reasonable action we would regain our status and rights, put an end to the usual city council bluster and, most importantly, see a return of public accountability.
- The first was its obvious lunacy, the immensity of the concept ‘millennium’ causing much bluster in pundits and presenters alike as it became clear the public had absolutely ignored it.
Synonyms ranting, hectoring, thundering, threatening, threats, bullying, domineering
Origin Late Middle English: ultimately imitative. |