windbag

Example Sentences

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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

Ethan Hawke plays Brown and even in the bleakest of scenes, the tireless opponent of slavery, can appear to be off his rocker, a spittle-spewing, mangy-bearded, often incoherent windbag.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2021

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