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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.bloviate - orate verbosely and windily
orate - talk pompously


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It also relates to the political implications that can be found in both pieces: The early billboard references the city's bloviating politicians, who apocryphally earned Chicago the epithet the "Windy City," and the later painting (given the artist's known sensitivity to such matters), the metronomic swing from Bush to Clinton to Bush.
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Three days later, he's bloviating like Michael Savage, and Maureen Dowd doesn't seem so silly anymore.
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These days, it's impossible to open a newspaper or turn on the news without being assaulted by a horde of self-aggrandizing politicians bloviating about the issue.
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