windbag

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

There were some who admired him and others who considered him a pompous windbag.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger