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
Bob Acres is a great blusterer, and talks big of his daring, but when put to the push "his courage always oozed out of his fingers' ends."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
