bluster

Morgan and Quinn took a serious approach to their business, despite the bling and celebrity bluster.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Davis has since backtracked, insisting the claims were bluster and were created by a ghostwriter to sell books.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

On Monday night, he vented his own frustration over the fair’s failure through his typical defensive bluster.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

The performances are all from the grip-and-grin school of acting: neat and precise with a minimum of bluster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

I watched Norris and saw that all the bluster was gone.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

Mr. Xi blusters about Taiwan because he can’t say what he really fears from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

In his effort to spotlight racism and racially motivated violence, the subject of “Loudmouth” rails, showboats, declaims and blusters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

Mr. Hodge, a Tony winner for the 2010 revival of “La Cage Aux Folles,” blusters, whines and suffers wonderfully, coloring in the character all the way to the outlines, and a little beyond.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018

He blusters and fingers his revolver, but carries no weight.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Over a grinding week in January, McCarthy bartered, bargained and blustered his way into the powerful speaker’s office with the history-making spectacle of 14 failed votes.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

“It’s not a trick question,” Mr. Poe blustered.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021

It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020

“By all accounts, he is no loss!” blustered Fudge.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Eilish is frightened, but when Larry returns later he dismisses her fears, blustering that he won’t “hop, skip, and jump” to the commands of the “GNSB.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

That’s quite the change from the blustering, kill-’em-all Viking who led the last installment of Ubisoft’s venerable franchise.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

Tyrion had rather liked Robert Baratheon, great blustering oaf that he was . . . doubtless in part because his sister loathed him so.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin