rodomontade

Example Sentences

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The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2015

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier.

From Time Magazine Archive

It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

No understanding reader could be imposed upon by such obvious rodomontade to suspect me for an alien, or believe me other than English.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various