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Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the Amabuna?
THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORDAnd Mr. Spurgeon was no windbag—vox et præterea nihil; no darling pet of old women whose Christianity was flabby as an oyster.
CHRISTOPHER CRAYON'S RECOLLECTIONSJ. EWING RITCHIEShowed what Sexton can do when so deeply moved as to forget himself, and resist besetting temptation to play the fatal windbag.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 104, FEBRUARY 25, 1893VARIOUSCarlyle thought Darwin a poor creature, and Comte regarded Hegel himself as an empty windbag.
FALLING IN LOVEGRANT ALLENA regular braggart and empty windbag, he had taken but one good care, and that was of his own skin.
EL DORADOBARONESS ORCZYHe shall not be a man of the people; else in that case he would be a demagogue, a windbag, a vox et prterea nil.
THE ARENAVARIOUSHe was a knight of industry of the very worst description—a braggart, a talker, a windbag.
THE SLAVE OF THE LAMPHENRY SETON MERRIMANHe felt ashamed for even considering the possibility of bending to the will of a windbag like Crane.
TEN FROM INFINITYPAUL W. FAIRMANRand began to suspect that Goode might be just another such self-righteous, opinionated, egotistical windbag.
MURDER IN THE GUNROOMHENRY BEAM PIPERHe had depended upon information which came from unimpeachable sources to secure the co-operation of this pompous windbag.
THE GREEN RUSTEDGAR WALLACEWORDS RELATED TO WINDBAG
- arrogant
- big
- big-headed
- bombastic
- cocky
- conceited
- crowing
- egotistic
- egotistical
- exultant
- full of hot air
- hifalutin
- hot stuff
- know-it-all
- loudmouth
- on ego trip
- pompous
- pretentious
- puffed-up
- self-aggrandizing
- self-applauding
- smart-alecky
- snooty
- strutting
- stuck-up
- swaggering
- swanky
- swollen-headed
- too big for one's britches
- vainglorious
- vaunting
- windbag
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