windbag
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Every actor to incarnate Poirot has played him differently: Tony Randall’s screwball, Albert Finney’s brilliantined grouch and Peter Ustinov’s avuncular windbag made the Belgian a figure of fun.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022
He knows which way the wind is blowing, and he will do his best to become a windbag that blows in that direction, whatever humiliating deflation is required first.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022
Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
This windbag at a party about five years ago told me, very loudly, that I had written only one book; the rest are screenplays.
From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2015
The night nurse had always been the biggest windbag in the school.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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