blustering
Example Sentences
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Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024
He arrives in Venice not as a blustering leader but more as man of the people, and vulnerable.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
“Echoes call you from your past,” went one gorgeously blustering song.
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023
He had always thought of Fudge as a kindly figure, a little blustering, a little pompous, but essentially good-natured.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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