blustering
Example Sentences
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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
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024
For nearly three years now, I’ve been fascinated by the performance art of this blustering pettifogger.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023
Balto led 12 other dogs through the last, blustering 53 miles of the now-famous “serum run.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 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
