blowhard
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But as that amusingly apt introduction suggests, that the character is a blowhard is assumed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Four ragtag Idaho acquaintances blunder into the Overworld and beg Black’s wizard-bearded blowhard for help returning home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
For most of the rest of his career, Keith was a sly humorist, a good-natured blowhard, a chronicler of what really happens below thick skin.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
But it also proved to wear thin, perhaps summed up best when former New Jersey governor Chris Christie called him the “most obnoxious blowhard in America” during a debate.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
I don’t like this blowhard professor very much.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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