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bloviate

[bloh-vee-eyt]

verb (used without object)

bloviated, bloviating 
  1. to speak pompously.



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Other Word Forms

  • bloviation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bloviate1

1850–55, pseudo-Latin alteration of blow 2 to boast; popularized by Warren G. Harding
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For starters, undocumented immigration is not the threat to public safety or the economy that Trump like to bloviate about.

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And it’s easy, as many quickly did, to write off this push to spruce up and fill up America’s most notorious prison-turned-national park as just bloviating or distraction.

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Any that are foolish enough to obey might find that they've got a much more formidable opponent than the bloviating fascist in the White House: local parents.

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The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.

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Perhaps we should be covering Trump based on the facts – and not the blathering, bloviated nonsense he spouts on a daily basis.

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