Word Finder - bombast

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Cotton, or cotton wool.

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Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

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High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

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To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.

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To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

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Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

England Made Me is a fine album that ably demonstrates that not all Britpop albums were about trad glamor or novelty pop bombast.

Gamers would analyze any little scrap of information about the game, and the introductory cinematic for games started to gain sophistication and theatrical bombast.

The stirring melody of the Marseillaise and its ingenious adaptation to the words serve to disguise the alternate poverty and bombast of the words themselves.

These songs, which fired the poet's comrades to deeds of heroism in 1813, bear eloquent testimony to the intensity of the national feeling against Napoleon, but judged as literature they contain more bombast than poetry.

The production has more of an uptempo Motown " Quiet Storm " feel to it, than the usual sickening 80s bombast.

Paracelsus's name was Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim; for the names Philippus and Aureolus which are sometimes added good authority is wanting, and the epithet Paracelsus, like some similar compounds, was probably one of his own making, and was meant to denote his superiority to Celsus.

The matter is well arranged, the style (modelled on that of Xenophon) simple, and on the whole free from the usual florid bombast of the Byzantine writers.

In comparing the Irish tales with the saga, there will be felt deep divergencies in matter, style and taste, the richness of one contrasting with the chastened simplicity of the other; the one's half-comic, half-earnest bombast is wholly unlike the other's grim humour; the marvellous, so unearthly in the one, is almost credible in the other; but in both are the keen grasp of character, the biting phrase, the love of action and the delight in blood which almost assumes the garb of a religious passion.

His father, the natural son of a grandmaster of the Teutonic order, was Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, who had a hard struggle to make a subsistence as a physician.