gasbag
Example Sentences
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At its least attractive, you may grimly flash on the last gasbag you were stuck next to while waiting on some interminable line.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Willy is a man of flagrant dishonesty and crude habits: Farting and belching on-screen, he’s a literal and figurative gasbag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
I posited to Stugotz that if he hadn’t met Le Batard, that’s who he would be now—not a self-aware gasbag, but just a gasbag.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2018
As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star’s gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
There was still a strong sideways pull from the gasbag, which was now nearly empty, but which as a result was catching the wind like a sail.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
