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bloviative

bloviative adjective: tending to bloviate.

Adjective

bloviative (comparative more bloviative, superlative most bloviative)

  1. (rare) Tending to bloviate.
    • Q. What is Mr. Frost's reputation here?—A. Well, it is not very savory. He is a noisy talking, bloviative, swearing, rearing, tearing sort of a fellow. If I thought he was a truthteller I should think I was a pretty bad fellow myself , from what he has said about me.1880, “House of Representatives. 46th Congress, 2d Session. Mis. Doc. No. 26.: Testimony Relating to the Ocean National Bank of New York, Taken by The Committee on Banking and Currency”, in Index to...
    • Throughout our mildly bloviative, sometimes animated exchange, I think we had made assumptions about each other that may have changed. At least for me they have.2000 January 21, Larry Bone, “Re: AA spells Assisted Alcoholism”, in alt.recovery.addiction.alcoholism (Usenet)

Examples of bloviative in a sentence

  • What I've seen of Fox is (check all that apply) boring, stupid, deliberately misleading, venal, bloviative, desperate.2005 August 27, Josh Hayes, “Re: Robertson just blatantly lied and there is no way around it”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
  • Getting all hot and bothered about meal allowances for traveling employees is about as bloviative as it gets.2010 July 30, Neil X., “Re: (NDC) Fear and Loathing in Silver Springs”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet):

Forms of bloviative

comparativemore bloviative
superlativemost bloviative

Origin of bloviative

From bloviate + -ive.

Questions about bloviative

What does bloviative mean?
Bloviative means tending to bloviate.
How do you use bloviative in a sentence?
What I've seen of Fox is (check all that apply) boring, stupid, deliberately misleading, venal, bloviative, desperate.
What part of speech is bloviative?
Bloviative is an adjective.

Words near bloviative in the dictionary

  1. bloviates
  2. bloviating
  3. bloviatingly
  4. bloviation
  5. bloviations
  6. bloviative
  7. bloviator
  8. bloviators
  9. bloviatory
  10. blow
  11. blow a backsight

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