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bombast

Meaning

Speech or writing that is inflated, pretentious, and of little substance.

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Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

He stood before the crowd, his voice booming with promises he couldn't keep. All that bombast, that big talk, meant nothing. It was just empty noise, designed to impress but offering no real help. People looked at each other, the hope draining from their faces.

The politician's speech, full of loud, empty promises and fancy words, was pure bombast. We all sat there, knowing his grand declarations meant nothing, just hot air for show, leaving us with the same old problems.

The politician's speech was all empty promises and loud words. He talked of grand futures, but his ideas were thin, just pure bombast that left the crowd feeling cheated and angry, like a promised feast that turned out to be only air.

The politician's speech was pure bombast, a huge pile of fancy words with no real ideas. He talked about saving the world, but mostly just made loud noises. Everyone just wanted a snack.

The mayor's speech about his "grand plan" to make all pigeons wear tiny hats was pure bombast. He talked for an hour about civic pride and fashion, but offered no real ideas on how to get the hats on the birds. Everyone just wanted to know where the free donuts were.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

The politician's speech was all bombast, filling the hall with loud, empty promises. He spoke of grand futures, but offered no real plans, just puffed up words that sounded important but meant nothing to the struggling crowd.

The politician's speech was all bombast. He pounded the podium, promising bold action, but his words were empty, a hollow echo of real solutions. We'd heard it all before, the grand pronouncements that led nowhere, leaving us only with the stale taste of his inflated rhetoric.

The candidate's speech was pure bombast, full of grand promises and empty threats about the future of competitive pigeon racing. He paced the small stage, his voice booming, but no one could grasp a single concrete plan for improving the breed's speed or endurance. The silence in the room was heavy with disappointment.

The politician's speech was all bombast, a hurricane of hot air promising flying cars and world peace, yet offering absolutely no plan. His audience, initially dazzled by the grand pronouncements, soon realized they'd just endured a masterclass in saying absolutely nothing with immense volume.

Barnaby's monologue about his prize-winning rutabaga was pure bombast. He ranted about the soil's ancient whispers and the moon's lunar lullabies, yet the actual turnip was, frankly, rather lumpy and unimpressive. The audience stifled giggles, more entertained by the hot air than the root vegetable.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

He stood before the crowd, his voice booming with impressive, empty words. Every pronouncement, every grand claim, was pure bombast. The audience, initially captivated by the theatrical display, soon realized there was no real plan, no concrete action behind the impressive, hollow speech.

He droned on, his pronouncements about the efficiency of the new fungal cultivation system a torrent of bombast. Everyone in the bio-dome just nodded, waiting for him to finish so they could actually get back to the delicate work, the nutrient paste levels critical.

He droned on about his strategic insights, his words a meaningless torrent of bombast. The assembled engineers, weary from the long night, just stared, their faces blank. All this grand talk amounted to nothing more than noise, offering no real solutions to the intricate temporal paradox they faced.

The self-proclaimed "Gourmet Guru" launched into a tirade of utter bombast, describing his lukewarm dishwater as a "celestial elixir" brewed by cherubs. He droned on about ethereal notes and cosmic pairings, oblivious to the bewildered silence from his audience, who were more interested in the crumbs on his chin.

The esteemed Duke, a man whose pronouncements always dripped with elaborate bombast, declared his pet aardvark the rightful heir to the throne. His speech, brimming with ostentatious phrases and a conspicuous absence of logic, convinced precisely no one, especially the aardvark himself, who seemed more interested in excavating the royal rug.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The politician’s entire speech devolved into pure bombast. He spoke of impending doom and his singular ability to avert it, but his grandiose pronouncements lacked any concrete proposals or substantive solutions, leaving the audience feeling utterly unimpressed and vaguely cheated.

The diplomat’s pronouncements, usually full of grand pronouncements and appeals to abstract ideals, felt hollow. His bombast, meant to galvanize the delegates, only evoked a weariness; the ceaseless, unsubstantiated assertions promised a profound shift but delivered nothing concrete.

The politician's pronouncements, filled with bombast, promised unprecedented prosperity for the agrarian sector. Yet, the drought-stricken farmers, accustomed to vacuous rhetoric, saw only empty words, their parched fields a stark refutation of the preposterous claims.

The self-proclaimed pundit, with his florid pronouncements and grandiose gestures, seemed determined to drown his audience in a torrent of pure bombast. His pronouncements, however, were as insubstantial as a phantom's lament, offering little more than intellectual ennui disguised as profound insight.

The self-proclaimed "Grand Orator of the Gastropod Guild" delivered his manifesto with a torrent of bombast, his pronouncements on the superior mastication of lettuce leaves echoing through the deserted carriage house. He expounded for an interminable hour, each vapid sentence a monument to overwrought, unsubstantial rhetoric, while a single, unimpressed slug nonchalantly traversed his gleaming, bald pate.

Difficulty

Challenging — Rare, high-register words for serious word lovers.

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