blusterer

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Johnson, a serial blusterer who relishes the role of entertaining after-dinner speaker, won the heart of his party and the country with such lines.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

He is "stupid" or a "blusterer," rather than dangerous.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2021

To give him credit, he is a magnificent blusterer.

From Forbes • Dec. 16, 2014

The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2013

His strength in words the blusterer vainly spends, While steadiness in quiet gains its ends.

From Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse by Weir, Harrison