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bloviate
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blo·vi·ate  (blv-t)
intr.v. blo·vi·at·ed, blo·vi·at·ing, blo·vi·ates Slang
To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: "the rural Babbitt who bloviates about 'progress' and 'growth'" George Rebeck.
[Mock-Latinate formation, from blow1.]
blovi·ation n.
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Verb1.bloviate - orate verbosely and windily
orate - talk pompously
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Alice especially despised those sorts of affected fools found in disproportionately large numbers in academe: bloviators, bad photographers, bad writers, poseurs.
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