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Discover LudwigThe word "blowhard" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who talks boastfully or arrogantly, often exaggerating their own achievements or abilities. It can also refer to someone who talks excessively and loudly. Example: "The CEO's speech at the company retreat was nothing more than a series of empty promises and self-praise, confirming his reputation as a blowhard."
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Colbert, wearing thick-rimmed glasses, spoke as himself, not as the blowhard character he has played on The Colbert Report for eight years.
Like Mr Mori, Mr Aoki is uninspiring, while Mr Kamei is an intemperate blowhard whose far-right views no-one takes seriously.
The rise of these "Lou Dobbs Democrats" (a reference to a globophobic blowhard on CNN) could spell significant changes in American economic policy.The new populists are certainly noisy.
Whatever job he ends up with, the government should not be gulled by the caricature of Mr Balls as some kind of hapless blowhard.
Everyone will be in trouble when VAR models dictate buying and selling.Tim EngelbertLondonCounter-attackSIR – Lexington spews his venom at Michael Moore, referring to the Oscar-winning filmmaker as a "blowhard" and "conspiracy theorist" (February 14th).
Level 3 Communications is a blowhard trying to win an ordinary business dispute over common practice by playing a "race card".
Taking chances The warrior president Reprints Related items Iraq: Is it war, or peace Apr 22nd 2004 Bob Woodward on Iraq: All another president's menApr 22nd 2004 American foreign policy: Have strategy, need tacticsApr 22nd 2004The first blow to Mr Bush's warrior strategy was the Democrats' decision to nominate a Vietnam war hero rather than an anti-war blowhard.
"Trump has shown himself to be a crude blowhard with no clear political philosophy and no deeper understanding of the important and serious role of President of the United States than one of the goons he lets rough up protesters in his crowds," he wrote.
Our meal was accompanied by an unignorable barrage of self-regarding complaints from the giant American blowhard at the next table.
For only the boorish blowhard would dare predict what will unfold on this grand old ground this week.
His (literally) wired narcissist hero is such a gabbler that everyone else has to raise their game to talk around or over him – notably Sam Rockwell, playing a rival whose thoroughgoing obnoxiousness is designed to make Stark look slightly less of a blowhard.
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