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windbag

noun as in bigmouth, chatterer

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He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”

He can still come off like a windbag with a know-it-all air.

Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the Amabuna?

And Mr. Spurgeon was no windbag—vox et præterea nihil; no darling pet of old women whose Christianity was flabby as an oyster.

Showed what Sexton can do when so deeply moved as to forget himself, and resist besetting temptation to play the fatal windbag.

Carlyle thought Darwin a poor creature, and Comte regarded Hegel himself as an empty windbag.

A regular braggart and empty windbag, he had taken but one good care, and that was of his own skin.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to windbag, such as: blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger, gasbag, and jabberer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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