Etymologies
- windbag + -ery (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Too much windbaggery, not enough content. tom s. says:”
“Defending the absurd notion that the windbaggery of Mr. Galloway is somehow a threat to our national security, a spokesperson for the virginal Jason Kenney, Alykhan Velshi, referred to Gorgeous George as "someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.”
“We'll see if he follows through on the windbaggery.”
“His propensity to windbaggery became progressively uncontrollable and members soon followed suit.”
“The Iowa caucuses of 2008 were not the end of our long national nightmare about race, but another stage in our protracted national nightmare of piety, “uplift,” and deceptive optimistic windbaggery.”
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Christopher Hitchens Unloads On Barack Obama
“But at Vital Speeches, we reject windbaggery, and toss those speeches out of our office by the flat-shovel-full.”
The Huffington Post: David Murray: Speeches: The Current State of the Oldest Art
“He likely wouldn't even make it out of the Republican primaries, where his pompous, self-absorbed windbaggery would put him at a disadvantage against his sucking-up-to-the extremist-base rivals.”
“You stepped in here, full of pompous condescension, spat on everyone you saw, uttered fatuous windbaggery, made bullshit claims, and then when challenged, went into pseudo-legal nonsense that wasn't even partially coherent.”
“In the meantime, you are probobly correct about the fatuotus windbaggery ....”
“John Baird, the ultimate in pomposity and windbaggery, lecturing on "responsibility.”
John Baird decries irresponsible Japanese election - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘windbaggery’.
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Tawkward
Verbal 'wtf' exchanges; odd moments of conversation and socializing.
somniloquy, bafflegab, syllepsis, sesquipedalian, whinge, divulge, anacoluthon, anaphora, sumpsimus, persiflage, eristic, overtones and 198 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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wiggery
poltroonery, xenocracy, wrackful, worsification, wormery, woollily, witenagemot, niaiserie, ourself, out-herod, ochlocracy, windbaggery and 19 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Drawer
Consider it a part of the desk.
conflagration, haberdashery, aubergine, scrimshaw, paradiddle, whirligig, narthex, pileated, amorphous, embargo, octopodes, octopuses and 15 more...
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Whimsical Word Waggery
delightfully youthful and energetically inspired words of joy and mirth and play! In order to post on this list, you must know deep down in your soul that you still have un irresisitible affinity f...
madeupical, funfortunate, splendiferous, fantabulous, pollyannary, humbuggery, hullabaloo, flibbertigibbet, pitter-patter, windbaggery, cockamamie, diddly-squat and 45 more...
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twizzler's list
windbaggery, draconian, joggle, nettlesome, afoul, chutzpah, pugnacious, lachrymose, bamboozle, fumfaw, flabbergast, skullduggery and 5 more...
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