Tom wastes so much time acting like a know-it-all in meetings, it seems he just likes to bloviate.
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Bloviate
//ˈbloʊ.viˌeɪt//
Synonyms for "bloviate"
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6 translations across 5 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- oreren verb (to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner)
German
1 entries- schwafeln verb (to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner)
Italian
1 entries- concionare verb (to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner)
Romanian
2 entries- a te lungi verb (to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner)
- a te lungi cu vorba verb (to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner)
Russian
1 entries- почесать язы́к verb (to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner)
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Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.
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His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense.
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“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.
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