windbag

Example Sentences

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Every actor to incarnate Poirot has played him differently: Tony Randall’s screwball, Albert Finney’s brilliantined grouch and Peter Ustinov’s avuncular windbag made the Belgian a figure of fun.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 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

He may be a bit excitable, a bit of a windbag.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2017

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

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