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bloviatingly

bloviatingly adverb: in a bloviating manner.

Adverb

bloviatingly (comparative more bloviatingly, superlative most bloviatingly)

  1. In a bloviating manner.
    • Such bloviatingly empty phrases, not at all atypical, seem lifted from the original Wallese, that debased political dialect, according to Dwight MacDonald, perfected by Henry Wallace...1988, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic - Volume 199, page 25
    • These days almost any would-be academic can fabricate an irrational thesis, bolster it with bloviatingly portentous phraseology, and release it to the great churn of social media where, even though it can't withstand even a cursory logical examination, it is almost guaranteed to catch the...2015 December 8, Scott Anderson, “ANDERSON: White privilege, gullibility and true racism”, in InfoTel News Ltd

Forms of bloviatingly

comparativemore bloviatingly
superlativemost bloviatingly

Origin of bloviatingly

From bloviating + -ly.

Questions about bloviatingly

What does bloviatingly mean?
Bloviatingly means in a bloviating manner.
What part of speech is bloviatingly?
Bloviatingly is an adverb.

Words near bloviatingly in the dictionary

  1. bloviant
  2. bloviate
  3. bloviated
  4. bloviates
  5. bloviating
  6. bloviatingly
  7. bloviation
  8. bloviations
  9. bloviative
  10. bloviator
  11. bloviators

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