(n.) One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
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.
Loudmouth
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This, or so the knowing forecast went, would be the end of a half-diverting saga of an appealing loudmouth.
(2) Donald Trump is a loudmouth who has never spent a day in public office.
(3) Their paths to showbiz acclaim have been intricately linked, from their on-screen depiction of the loudmouthed rapping brother-sister duo Smithy and Rudi in Gavin and Stacey to their subsequent two-year relationship off-screen.
(4) It is this poverty-drenched environment in which Hussain met James Cromitie, a loudmouth Walmart worker who claimed to deal drugs and stolen goods.
(5) The rapper was replying to those who have criticised his dress sense – hip-hop loudmouths who have tried to "label" him as gay, including a recent homophobic diss by 50 Cent.
(6) Comedian and musician Tim Minchin will star in his first sitcom as a loudmouth cocktail pianist in 88 Keys for the BBC.
(7) The EU’s failure to craft a coherent response to the crisis of mass movement from Africa and the Middle East is tailor-made for Ukip loudmouths.
(8) They regard Malema as a clown, a loudmouth and a bully.
(9) I am the greatest" - Ali shouting at reporters who had dismissed him as a loudmouth and a fake before the Liston fight in 1964.
(10) In order to escape jail, Monsegur, a notorious loudmouth elite hacker who was considered a ringleader of the groups, had been covertly cooperating with the FBI to help build cases against, and track down, his former partners.
(11) Nor is my daughter, and I hope she never will be, because luckily we are all loudmouths.
(12) He was one of those loudmouthed New Yorkers with a big cigar.
(13) How do we fight the loudmouth politics of authoritarian populism?
(14) A skilled politician even then, this tall, long-haired 16-year-old – with a penchant for jeans and tweed sports jackets – managed, while attending to his official duties, to humour an argumentative cadre of awkward first-year student loudmouths whose pimpled number included me.
(15) He subsequently said he regretted his comments, saying: “People think I'm just a loudmouth, angry guy … there's more to me than that rant.” Speaking about his own experience, he said: “You've got a lot of racial backlash, and a lot of racist comments that were uncalled for – I can never see a time where racism is called for.
(16) The sensationally funny and daring cameo for Marshall McLuhan, who magically appears in a cinema queue to tell some loudmouth academic that he is wrong and Alvy is right, is an inspired and sophisticated flourish.
(17) Over at the SNY TV Network, which is partially owned by the crosstown Mets, there was a diatribe from from Chris Carlin, who co-hosts a show called Loudmouths .
(18) Once, at a showbiz party, I remember someone said, "And this is such-and-such from the Sun," and I swung round, almost with a clenched fist, expecting to meet a physical embodiment of the tabloid, a loudmouth yob with a penchant for puns.