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bloviate

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbloʊ.viˌeɪt/Part of speech verbSorted abeilotvStarts with BEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. orate verbosely and windily

Word origin

1845, US, Ohio, from blow (“speak idly, boast”) + -i- + -ate, by analogy with deviate.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense.
  • “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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