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blowhard /ˈbləʊhɑːd /noun North American informalA boastful or pompous person: the segregationist blowhards who would dominate the politics of my state for a generation [as modifier]: blowhard politicians...- He'd probably be a senator because, in a business that attracts pompous blowhards, senators are the crème de la crème.
- That is, the program and network, its host, and its audiences were more cerebral, more scholastic, and more directly concerned with effecting change than its blowhard competitors.
- He is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
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