bloviative
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]bloviative (comparative more bloviative, superlative most bloviative)
- (very rare) Tending to bloviate.
- 1880, “House of Representatives. 46th Congress, 2d Session. Mis. Doc. No. 26.: Testimony Relating to the Ocean National Bank of New York, Taken by The Committee on Banking and Currency”, in Index to the Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-sixth Congress, 1879–'80, volume 2, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 87:
- Q. What is Mr. Frost's reputation here?—A. Well, it is not very savory. He is a noisy talking, bloviative, swearing, rearing, tearing sort of a fellow. If I thought he was a truthteller I should think I was a pretty bad fellow myself , from what he has said about me.
- 2000, Stereoscopy, numbers 41–48, International Stereoscopic Union, page 28:
- […] and used it to acquire something odd for my collection of gargantuan gasbags (dirigibles, non-round balloons, and perturbingly plump politicians of a bloviative bent)—an artillery spotting balloon from the Russo-Japanese War, which Geoff found and recommended to me.
- 2005 August 27, Josh Hayes, “Re: Robertson just blatantly lied and there is no way around it”, in talk.origins[2] (Usenet):
- What I've seen of Fox is (check all that apply) boring, stupid, deliberately misleading, venal, bloviative, desperate. But, of course, I've only been able to stomach so much of that before having to watch something more wholesome, like Nip/Tuck (also, of course, on a Fox network!).