The word "bloated" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this word to describe something that has swollen, expanded, or grown bigger than usual, particularly in a way that is unpleasant or unhealthy. For example, "After eating too much, I felt bloated and uncomfortable."
Bloated public payrolls, stupid subsidies for uncompetitive industries, underinvestment in science, technology and education, corruption, tax exemption for the professional classes etc – you can't afford that kind of laissez-faire unless you periodically devaluate your currency.
Accounting sleuths have concluded that Autonomy bloated its software sales by dressing up revenue from "negative-margin, low-end" hardware and by prematurely counting sales through resellers, a practice known as "channel-stuffing".
The bloated and inefficient bureaucracy makes life miserable for firms.
Bloated budget deficits, high inflation, stagnant growth and rampant corruption were the hallmarks of incompetent bureaucrats trying to usurp the market.
The Russian armed forces are bloated, top-heavy and weak.
Bloated civil services, says Brookings's Mr Pollack, provide the regimes with a way to dispense patronage and pretend-jobs to mop up new graduates.
They want to "take back" an America which they say has been going wrong for generations as successive administrations have bloated the federal government and trampled on the constitution and the rights of states and individuals.
It had become corrupt, its civil service bloated, its economy sclerotic.
Instead they ride camels through the searing desert air, their stomachs bloated from malnutrition, as their parents watch with pride.People in neighbouring countries are no better off.
If the rolls are no longer bloated with the names of dead voters, it will be harder for Zanu-PF to rig the election.The prospects for a free and fair election still depend heavily on proper monitoring by Zimbabwe's neighbours.
In particular, he has been under pressure over the budget.Last month the IMF said Poland's public sector was "bloated by large and poorly targeted social transfers, inefficient public enterprises, and high and rising public debt".
