blusterer

Example Sentences

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Johnson, a serial blusterer who relishes the role of entertaining after-dinner speaker, won the heart of his party and the country with such lines.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

He is "stupid" or a "blusterer," rather than dangerous.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2021

To give him credit, he is a magnificent blusterer.

From Forbes • Dec. 16, 2014

The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2013

Sooner they may and nature change her course, Than can a blusterer to a modest man: He still will stand a beacon of dislike.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831 by Various