(v. i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
(v. i.) To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
(v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
(n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
(n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
Example Sentences:
(1) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
(2) For all the bluster from Coalition MPs, farming communities will lose out.
(3) Ed Balls's bluster is confused and hypocritical when the reality is he'd do it all again," Fallon said.
(4) The curse of playing Ari Gold is that Jeremy Piven may have to spend the rest of his life trying to convince the world he is not a rage-fuelled blustering asshole.
(5) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
(6) Cameron added that recent warnings from banks such as Lloyds and RBS, and from firms such as BP and Shell proved that the economic and financial risks of independence were not bluff and bluster or bullying.
(7) A steady rise in the yes vote in recent opinion polls also established that voters did not buy "the bluff and bluster" of those opposed to independence.
(8) He has a pretty easy ride if he’s prepared but if he tries to bluster it could hurt him,” Mann said.
(9) Terre'Blanche's credibility as a political leader collapsed after the anti-black threats voiced by the extreme white right proved to be little more than bluster.
(10) But for all Clegg's bluster, he's not setting tough enough tests for the changes the prime minister must make to his NHS plans.
(11) This is nothing but bluster and hot air with precisely nothing achieved.
(12) The book has action, but it also has a point; it has pathos, where the film is all comic-action bluster.
(13) Besides the election of Trump, with all his attendant nationalist bluster and populist economic and trade pronouncements, Brexit has seen the UK turn its back on Europe on the back of economic and immigration concerns, and closer to home, the 2016 federal election culminated in the resurgence of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party.
(14) While many fiscal conservatives view Huckabee warily, he has a solid social conservative thread and a folksy charm that would pair well with Trump’s big city bluster.
(15) Underneath all the showbiz bluster, he was an old softie.
(16) From all accounts, he was a bully, a manipulator, and a blustering, pessimistic, emotionally dishonest man.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton criticizes the ‘bluster and bigotry’ of the Republican campaign Before Tuesday’s elections, Clinton was ahead of Sanders by 673 to 477 pledged delegates and – with the vast majority of super delegates too – was nearly halfway to securing the 2,383 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
(18) On the other hand, if Iran is dragging its feet and compliance problems have arisen, that would make it much easier for a new president to walk away from the deal.” Einhorn also expressed doubts that a Republican president, for all of the bluster among the current crop of candidates, would actually turn his back on an agreement if it appeared to be working.
(19) I think I have made a lot of sacrifices,” he blustered.
(20) In the past, Zevon has occasionally been guilty of LA sludge-rock bluster, but these songs flash back to the rough simplicity of his original inspiration, Bob Dylan.
Braggadocio
Definition:
(n.) A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
(n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Huck Finn , he could recall life on America's great river as a permanent thing, a place of menacing sunsets, starlit nights and strange dawns, of the confessions of dying men, hints of buried treasure, murderous family feuds, overheard shoptalk, the crazy braggadocio of travelling showmen, the distant thunder of the civil war, and two American exiles, Huck the orphan and Jim the runaway slave, floating down the immensity of the great Mississippi.
(2) Sometimes men launch these attacks on each other, hack each other in displays of techie braggadocio, but it is essentially yet another unwanted cost of being female.
(3) And then she allowed his style and braggadocio to rattle her.
(4) But he continues to show that he is not being “handled”, and it’s likely he will go on with this bluster and braggadocio.
(5) Yes, there are still braggadocio lyrics and attitudes but I would say hip-hop has made great strides.
(6) Already, the Kentucky fighter's braggadocio ("I am the prettiest ...
(7) But again, Trump seems extreme compared to other candidates, as witnessed in his near-constant self-references, his over-the-top braggadocio and his desire to plaster his name on skyscrapers, casinos, a so-called “university” and steaks.
(8) Donald Trump drew oohs and aahs for all of his one-liners and braggadocio , while more centrist candidates like Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich drew scepticism and a fair number of boos in the crowded hotel ballroom during Thursday night’s debate.
(9) Because people are saying ‘You know, Trump is right … Trump has a point’.” There is so much braggadocio involved in the Donald Trump Show that many people outside his political bubble have become accustomed to taking everything he says with a very large pinch of salt.
(10) Hurley's lyrics combine braggadocio and rebellious sloganeering with an underlying sense of bleak urban unease.
(11) If someone else was saying this you might take it as idle hip-hop braggadocio, but this is Rick Ross we're talking about.
(12) Isis is playing a game of braggadocio and provocation, dressing it up in the language of prisoner exchanges and execution, as though it really is the state it claims to be.
(13) Angst experienced after losing all of one's friends following a protracted bout of online braggadocio, often enhanced by the grim, slowly-dawning realisation that the maxim "you only live once" works equally well as a warning against such hubristic carelessness, so maybe you should've frigging well heeded it eh #yolo.
(14) Now, Ali – the Greatest, the inventor and ne plus ultra of boxing’s motor-mouth braggadocio – has fallen all but silent.
(15) Perhaps that is why I’m most proud of this achievement; the braggadocio is ever-present.