blowhard

Example Sentences

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He’s a blowhard, so pleased with himself that he imagines the air is grateful he breathes it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Four ragtag Idaho acquaintances blunder into the Overworld and beg Black’s wizard-bearded blowhard for help returning home.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

But it also proved to wear thin, perhaps summed up best when former New Jersey governor Chris Christie called him the “most obnoxious blowhard in America” during a debate.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024

But Daisy has married the brutish Tom Buchanan, a chauvinist blowhard with a violent temper and a mistress on the side.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

I don’t like this blowhard professor very much.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland