as in rhetorical
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
another gassy speech by a long-winded politician
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Recent Examples of gassy
The bubbles from carbonation add extra gas to your digestive system, and chia’s soluble fiber can slow down digestion, which may leave you feeling overly full or gassy.
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Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 7 Aug. 2025
But during his promotion of the racing movie, star Brad Pitt reminded us that celebrities are just like us: gassy as hell.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 4 July 2025
Thankfully, Midas is now fully recovered from his gassy ordeal, and is back to his usual self, running around the house and enjoying life.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
The discards soon ended up in a massive tank that mimics a cow’s digestion — minus the release of gassy byproducts — where they were turned into compost and renewable energy.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 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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In addition, teams had to fix leaky ground support hardware used to load gaseous oxygen into Orion for its crew to breathe.—
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Distilled water is water that has been boiled, causing the water molecules to return to a gaseous state and then condense back into liquid.—
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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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Now in its fifth season, the Apple TV drama follows a gang of screw-up spies who are nobody’s idea of the Avengers, led by Gary Oldman’s irascible, flatulent Jackson Lamb.—
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Our foul, flatulent father-figure may exaggerate a bit when belittling his enemies (and friends, for that matter), but cloaked under his aura of filth — like an adult Pig-Pen’s toxic dust cloud — rests a core truth.—
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“Gassy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gassy. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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