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

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

Jefferson was a clever tactician, but also a preening showboat; Hamilton had serious “skill with a quill”, yet he could also be a self-destructive windbag.

From Economist • Dec. 16, 2015

If not, he might have been remembered as a self-aggrandizing windbag with an old-fashioned speaking style and a love of the sound of his own voice.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith