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synonyms for bombast

  • balderdash
  • bluster
  • braggadocio
  • cotton
  • exaggeration
  • fustian
  • gasconade
  • grandiloquence
  • grandiosity
  • magniloquence
  • pad
  • pomposity
  • rage
  • rant
  • rave
  • rhapsody
  • rhetoric
  • rodomontade
  • stuff
  • tumidity
  • turgidity
  • altiloquence
  • bombastry
  • padded
  • stuffed
  • tympany

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How to use bombast in a sentence

It was an extremely vulnerable moment in a night mostly characterized by bombast.
THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS OF KANYE WEST AND DRAKE'S REUNION CONCERTANDREW R. CHOWDECEMBER 10, 2021TIME
Although there was quite a lot of bombast in Ford’s release about this to say it could bring EV charging times down to equivalent to refueling, that bits in the handwave phase at the moment.
NIFTY NEW TECH COULD CUT EV CHARGING TIMES FROM HOURS TO MINUTESHAZEL SOUTHWELL/THE DRIVENOVEMBER 16, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
Veteran counterterrorism officials say the bombast and sheer volume of chatter on those forums make it a challenge to differentiate between plotting and ranting.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM: A MORE URGENT THREAT, BUT WEAKER LAWSBY SEBASTIAN ROTELLAJANUARY 8, 2021PROPUBLICA
On the one hand, this is as much production value as one would expect for elite athletes, and just as much bombast as directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui afforded their last documentary subject, fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
3 NEW DOCUMENTARIES TO STREAM THIS FALLERIN BERGERSEPTEMBER 21, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
The notion was simply that the young idlers about town met together to acquire perfection in the arts of bombast and exaggeration.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMAN
To search for thoughts to trail along in a series results in thinnest bombast.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
I look upon it all as an empty, insolent piece of bombast; but whatever it is, we must not be taken unawares.
MASS' GEORGEGEORGE MANVILLE FENN
Indeed, the man seems to have been a second Paracelsus, lacking only in the dishonesty and bombast of the latter.
AN EPITOME OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINEROSWELL PARK
Can it be possible that he believes that proclamation will be acceptable to them—that mixture of cajolery and bombast.
THE HOUR AND THE MANHARRIET MARTINEAU
But it is well to recognize the source of eloquence, which is to be distinguished from bombast and fustian.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTER
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WORDS RELATED TO BOMBAST

  • bluff
  • boasting
  • boisterousness
  • bombast
  • braggadocio
  • bragging
  • bravado
  • crowing
  • rabidity
  • rampancy
  • swagger
  • swaggering
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