as in rhetorical
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
a bombastic speech intended to impress the voters in her congressional district
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Recent Examples of bombastic
The Safe Soss gear is a little less bombastic.
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New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
The result was a bombastic action movie with a dark sense of humour.
—Ian Stokes, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
Slow-motion footage from active shooter training courses, which is overlaid with bombastic opera and accented with a Ruben Östlund-like comic detachment.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 Nov. 2025
Reminiscent of the bombastic historical action in Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones, Redcoat pulls back the curtain of American history to tell the legend of the unknown hero.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
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The Four Freedoms Roosevelt named were not rhetorical ornaments offered as inspiration so much as a diagnosis.—
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Most Venezuelans who are smart recognize that this is a rhetorical device.—
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Another agency investigation revealed that a former CPS employee defrauded the district of potentially more than $135,000 over three years by reporting false or inflated work hours, the report said.—
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Investors also periodically rotated out of tech and into value areas of the market due to worries of inflated valuations in the AI trade.—
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The bishops further authorized a new edition of the Roman Pontifical for pontifical Masses, expected to be completed by 2027, with Vatican approval pending for some rites, according to the Catholic News Agency.—
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In its report, the pontifical commission highlights failures in the Italian church.—
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“Bombastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bombastic. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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