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fanfaronade
Example Sentences
“Thankfully, Wordeby’s has an entry on ‘fanfaronade,’ which means ‘empty, self-promoting language,’ and that seems to hit the nail right on the head.”
Though none of the two is a greenhorn, Trump has to be on guard against uttering anything, during his fanfaronade, that can be challenged, if found untrue.
Still he remained, his eyes roving ceaselessly over the passers-by, who were now few, now many, as the current ran fast or slow, as some coach high-laden drew up before the door with a noisy fanfaronade, or some heavy wagon toiled slowly by.
"Sir Thomas," he says, "is a joyous spirit—a right Pantagruelist; and if he occasionally 'Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba,' he has an exuberance of wit and playfulness of fancy that amply redeem his tendency to fanfaronade."
You overlook the worst corruption, the worst oppression, in your leaders if only they gild it with military fanfaronade and declamation about bravery and destiny and patriotism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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