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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 blow.]
blovi·ation n.
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Verb1.bloviate - orate verbosely and windily
orate - talk pompously


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I saw a judge who stonewalled when questioned on his membership in an anti-woman/anti-civil rights group; bloviated when asked about women's right to choose; whose record is pro-corporation, anti-individuals' rights 85 percent of the time; and who may eviscerate the clean water, clean air acts.
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Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, which is Italian for "from Mars," bloviated that if we allow gays to marry, the next thing you know people will want to marry their pets.
Wedded to the Republicans by Clinton, Kate / The Progressive
But in the years that followed, they share a sky-scraping, grandiloquent self-importance that argues against everything they stood for before they became infatuated with the presidency, the bloviated notion that their own ideas are so perfect, so far above anyone else's, that in comparison there really is no significant difference between Democrats and Republicans.
The first spoiler: before Ralph Nader, there was Eugene McCarthy by Clymer, Adam / Washington Monthly
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