Did you by any chance mean bloviating?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. One who habitually bloviates; a pompous, opinionated, typically voluble commentator.
Etymologies
- bloviate + -or (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One example of a bloviator is my Congressman Tom Allen, the "good" Democrat from Portland, Maine.”
“The controversial Fox News talk show host and self-described "bloviator" Bill O'Reilly has written another book, this one about his formative years and how they shaped the man he has become.”
“Dobbs comes across as a self-important, pompous, bloviator with extreme opinions delivered with absolute certainty.”
“November 25th, 2009 2: 23 pm ET lou dobbs has become a bloviator, gas bag, losing all credability. hopefully he will run for office and truly find out what the american people really think of him”
“Nelson has every right to comment, and as a dyspeptic, rank bloviator has the obligation to receive the returning comments.”
“Although Rush, lately, has become a rather titular bloviator due to crossing the line into outright falsehood.”
“In fact the bloviator and his beloved show a perfect consistency in the do-what-I say Fundamentalism now at the rotting core of what used to be the Conservative movement.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Conniff: Con Games: Rush Limbaugh Is So Gay
“She has also become the go-to bloviator for every current infidelity plaguing our airwaves from Tiger Woods to Jesse James.”
The Huffington Post: Mistresses Anonymous vs. Horndogs Anonymous
“But for the sake of time, just ask yourself: was Winston Churchill one of history's more effective leaders, or just a B-grade bloviator?”
The Huffington Post: John Neffinger: Actually Jason, Obama Is Short on Drama
“King's "USA" show debuted in March after the immigrant-bashing, right-wing bloviator Lou Dobbs mercifully left CNN, but King, flashed his conservative credentials with the pejorative Gore remark and revealed, perhaps unintentionally, that CNN (owned by Time Warner) must have reserved the 7: 00 p.m. time period for a wing-nut.”
The Huffington Post: Charles Warner: CNN's John King Panders to Deniers
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bloviator’.
-
Insulting nicknames for politicians
Some of these terms are old-fashioned, but they might still come in handy.
snollygoster, slang-whanger, bloviator, fence-sitter, flip-flopper, log roller, mossback, lame duck, mugwump, spinmeister, ward heeler, loose cannon
-
A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
-
Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
-
Words i had to look up
hermeneutics, flimflam, semi-parodic, motes, susurrations, phantasm, egregiously, monoglot, galluptious, exigency, agrimony, gibbous and 111 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bloviator.
donnyboy Laura Holson noted in the NY Timesof March 10,2010:"Sometimes you hear a word for the first time and think :"Of course." How better to describe...the frequent tabloid target Alec Baldwin than as "the bloviator"? Mar 9, 2010
ekerilaz one who talks at length in a boastful and pompous manner
bloviate Jun 14, 2009
Prolagus Could the old racial politics still be determinative? I’ve long been skeptical of the incessant press prognostications (and liberal panic) that this election will be decided by racist white men in the Rust Belt. Now even the dimmest bloviators have figured out that Americans are riveted by the color green, not black — as in money, not energy. Voters are looking for a leader who might help rescue them, not a reckless gambler whose lurching responses to the economic meltdown (a campaign “suspension,�? a mortgage-buyout stunt that changes daily) are as unhinged as his wanderings around the debate stage.
(The New York Times, The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama, by Frank Rich, October 12, 2008) Oct 12, 2008