windbag
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Its brevity made it an excellent vehicle for wit — a barb for puncturing bloated egos and windbag grandiosity.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 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
As for Long’s former co-star Kelsey Grammer, he made so much money playing exasperated windbag Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier that he hasn’t really needed to keep working.
From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2016
The windbag in question is Thomas Wolfe, by all accounts the most difficult and irrepressible talent in Perkins’ stable — and also the most outlandishly theatrical, to judge by Jude Law’s puckish performance in the role.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2016
If not, he might have been remembered as a self-aggrandizing windbag with an old-fashioned speaking style and a love of the sound of his own voice.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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