gasbag
Example Sentences
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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
It’s cited out of context all the time as a pearl of genuine wisdom, but in the playing it’s traditionally rendered as just one of the many aphorisms spouted by an old gasbag.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010
The buoyancy of the gasbag was too great, and the men, haul as they might, couldn’t hold it back.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
