bluster

A chill had moved into the room, slowly replacing the bluster of revelers over the wee hours.

For all of Gustav’s bluster and ego, the film leaves room for grace.

Stuart Hoddinott acknowledges that Reform has entered a "broken" system, given the pressure on funding for statutory services and cuts already made across the board - but he accuses the party of "bluster" and "outlandish promises".

That Crutch, for all his bluster, is a softy, is a point the series explicitly makes.

Dictators and rogue states would be ascendant, nuclear weapons would proliferate, and the president-elect would never make good on his bluster about ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.