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“They are lucky to live in America where such bilious bloviation is allowed.”
Think Progress » MSNBC regular advocates murder of newspaper editors.
“Well, I’m used to hearing that kind of bloviation at graduation exercises.”
“There's already been a boatload of bloviation expressed on the recent reversal of the ban on loaded firearms in our national parks, some of it sensible but most of it (predictably) bordering on hysterics.”
“If Rumsfeld had more than half a wit, he would have known that he needed to plan for that contingency, regardless of any bloviation by Darth, Shrub, Wolfie and the remainder of the neo-con turd pack about not doing nation building and being greeted as liberators.”
Think Progress » Bill’s Late Father Irving Kristol: ‘My Poor Son Has Got It Wrong Again’
“In other words, all the bluster and bloviation and cruel humor he exuded was there to cover up for the fact that he's nothing more than an overpaid carnival barker, and he's scared to death that the world will find out.”
“All the talk about our troops protecting our freedoms overseas is pure bloviation.”
“That said, this is shaping up as such an awful situation that, if the top kill doesn't work, you can expect DRAMATIC ACTION (for the sake of dramatic action if nothing else), which means bureaucratic shake-ups, new policies, new edicts, new bluster and bloviation, and almost certainly at least one human sacrifice.”
“On the “I Publius Index”; the hype, bloviation, and arrogant wingnut misdirection have reached Category 4.”
“In a world awash in screaming bloviation, I ask you: What's more honest than that?”
“I used to read the New Yorker but the douchey bloviation finally got to me.”
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Mat8iou's interesting words
Words I've come across & want to remember.
bloviation, elginism, panegyric, infandous, boke, pangram, quine, pareto principle, panopticon, snib, escutcheon, bokeh and 129 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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All the Presidents' Words
Words coined or popularized by U.S. presidents.
administration, Brother Jonathan, Jeffersonian, belittle, odometer, public relations, kitchen cabinet, Jacksonian, spoils system, OK, lame duck, teddy bear and 27 more...
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mat8iou I'm amazed this term isn't used more often, as the situation it describes is something that crops up very frequently. Mar 13, 2010