bluster

Morgan and Quinn took a serious approach to their business, despite the bling and celebrity bluster.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Davis has since backtracked, insisting the claims were bluster and were created by a ghostwriter to sell books.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

If the latter is true, then Mr. Trump’s Sunday remark that “we are low-keying it” may be more sensible than his usual military bluster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Even Erika freely admits the art world is a scam, although some of her bluster is self-protective.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Underneath all the make-believe bluster of pretending to be the heroic Duke, Fred realized who he really was: a coward.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Mr. Xi blusters about Taiwan because he can’t say what he really fears from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Myers is especially fine conveying a sort of shyness seasoned with bravado, along with various degrees of worry that only increase as she blusters her way into ever more perilous situations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

In his effort to spotlight racism and racially motivated violence, the subject of “Loudmouth” rails, showboats, declaims and blusters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

Miller always blusters over the Broncos’ prospects, but this year his words hit different because of the depth and speed on this roster.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

Some times it puts them to the blush and throws them into confusion; at others it blusters like a blatant liar; at others, again, it stutters and stammers like a detected thief.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

Over a grinding week in January, McCarthy bartered, bargained and blustered his way into the powerful speaker’s office with the history-making spectacle of 14 failed votes.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

“It’s not a trick question,” Mr. Poe blustered.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021

It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020

He blustered and complained at first, but decided it was high time he cleaned and oiled his old rifle.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

Eilish is frightened, but when Larry returns later he dismisses her fears, blustering that he won’t “hop, skip, and jump” to the commands of the “GNSB.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The wings lifted and dipped in the blustering wind like a motorboat riding swells.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein