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
That’s quite the change from the blustering, kill-’em-all Viking who led the last installment of Ubisoft’s venerable franchise.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2023
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
For nearly three years now, I’ve been fascinated by the performance art of this blustering pettifogger.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023
The blustering hare was quite a kindly creature really, all bark and no bite at all.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
