puffed-up
Example Sentences
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One woman sits grinning idiotically at a huge, puffed-up pillow on her lap.
From Slate
The puffed-up mostly-men of the Freedom Caucus spit and gibbered about all the ways in which the legislation failed to live up to its promises, even issuing a 15-point memo on the matter.
From Slate
"In fact, we look like we're peacefully and freely performing a big, fat show to a puffed-up and hateful power. The message is clear: they have no power over us!"
From BBC
In footage filmed for the BBC by a local journalist in Gaza at one of the few remaining bakeries in the centre of the strip, a stream of hot puffed-up pitas roll out of an oven on a conveyor belt.
From BBC
It’s a huge blow to his puffed-up brand.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
