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

A windbag tries to impress his fiancee and her family with false accounts of his success.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019

Mark, with his many soliloquies about the beauty of neuro-marketing, comes across as a snooze-inducing windbag, while Claire is played largely as a caricature of a shallow art dealer.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2019

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