bluster

His previous U.N. speeches have been jammed with bluster and bunkum, but none more so than this one.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

Suddenly, China’s stated mission to put people on the moon before 2030 seems less like bluster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

“Look here,” Lanning covered definite pessimism with bluster, “we’ve done what you asked. We witnessed the man eat. It’s ridiculous to presume him a robot.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

Miller always blusters over the Broncos’ prospects, but this year his words hit different because of the depth and speed on this roster.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

When he learns about the affair, he glories in having the moral high ground: “You’re Jesse James,” he blusters, “and I get to be Sandra Bullock!”

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016

The conflagration, driven In fiery levin, roars from jungle caves; Hisses and blusters through the bamboo clusters, Crackles across the curling grass, and drives Into the river waves The forest folk!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

When they didn’t, he blustered over the course of half a dozen hearings, at one point threatening to bulldoze Brentwood’s pool or fill it with sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

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

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

Newspapers howled, commentators pontificated, politicians blustered – and perhaps that was the point.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019

And when Wang Lung stammered and blustered, not understanding, “Well—and what—well and what—” his uncle opened his coat and showed him what was against its lining.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap sketch the shifting alliances and blustering personalities that made this one of the most notorious Chapter 11 cases of the 21st century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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

On Thursday in northern Los Angeles County, wind gusts peaked at 56 mph at Lake Palmdale, with blustering winds recorded along the Central Coast and into the Antelope Valley, the weather service said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024

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

He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller