windbag

• It had and has nothing to do with the case that such a 'statesman' by the sixth month of his activity is shown up as the most incompetent windbag, the butt of everyone's ridicule and contempt, that he doesn't know which way to turn and has provided unmistakable proof of his total incapacity! —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The Right of Emergency Defense
• That "windbag" seemed to be having no trouble talking Kelvin himself into anything Heln busied herself in the kitchen while St. Helens ate the pie. —  Serpents's Silver
• ;We are confident in your abilities at deception Laquatus could only humbly nod The great windbag, the ambassador thought, looking back on the interview. —  VANCE MOORE
• His words comforted them because they were imbued with the same numbing authority, the same dull stench of official truth, as the windbag belches of the old party lions with dead eyes and poisoned livers whom they had been conditioned to obey. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
• I forget altogether what I said of Landor; but I hope I did not put him in the Heraud category: a cockney windbag is one thing; a scholar and bred man, though incontinent, explosive, half-true, is another. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I

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