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
They had—one or two of them, at least—some misgivings about this appointment; for the major was inclined to be a blusterer, and the courage of these men was eminently silent.
From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by F.O.C. Darley
