bombast

[US]/ˈbɒmbæst/
[UK]/ˈbɑːmbæst/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
adj. using high-sounding language; pompous

Phrases & Collocations

bombastic style

Example Sentences

cut through the bombast

see through the bombast

Real-world Examples

Not everyone was convinced by such bombast.

Source: Past exam questions of new reading types in the postgraduate entrance examination.

Colleagues soon found Kennedy to be an odd combination of bombast and self-effacement.

Source: Time

For a while, in Cairo and Beirut, he worked for Radio Palestine, but the bombast and sloganeering of politics repelled him.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

It's not bombast that I cured her broken bosom bone with borax.

Source: Pan Pan

After all this sort of bombast, you know, I can do it better, the Americans aren't helping us.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

" All the bombast which our opponent has stolen from Bossuet and lavished upon you, " said the advocate, " has done you good" .

Source: The Red and the Black (Part Four)

" There are a lot of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software, " Dobbs said, his usual bombast strangely absent.

Source: New York Times

Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.

Source: Gone with the Wind

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