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
To engineers and architects, Hart Crane's rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an unscientific, rummy rodomontade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up bel canto hill and down rodomontade dale, con brio, with the rising young opera star Rockwell Blake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Real convictions were sometimes diluted with rodomontade, and a true feeling was to some extent stimulated by the desire to embarrass a rival.
From John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
