gasbag
Example Sentences
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Willy is a man of flagrant dishonesty and crude habits: Farting and belching on-screen, he’s a literal and figurative gasbag.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2018
He is, thanks to his 15-year partnership with Le Batard, a completely self-aware gasbag.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2018
As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star’s gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016
It’s cited out of context all the time as a pearl of genuine wisdom, but in the playing it’s traditionally rendered as just one of the many aphorisms spouted by an old gasbag.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010
He looked up to check the gasbag and saw it sway a degree or two, leaning toward the hills.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
