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

In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023

He arrives in Venice not as a blustering leader but more as man of the people, and vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

Lord Jonos Bracken arrived from the ruins of Stone Hedge, glowering and blustering, and took a seat as far from Tytos Blackwood as the tables would permit.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin