Windbag

Definition

windbag /'wÇndbæg/ n ( infml derog ) ေလေပါ။ ေလအိုး။

Examples

1. ‘The indictment against Adams
2. as I read it
3. is that he's a fat
4. pompous old windbag who assumes that anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a fool or a knave.’
5. ‘And if you think I'm using big words
6. you should have heard these ivory tower windbags.’
7. ‘‘The boy looks like a pompous windbag
8. ’ Vandy interjected.’
9. ‘They can range from I-work-with-bricks-and-steel-and-you-don't macho he-men on one end of the spectrum to the pompous
10. condescending windbags affecting Wrightian capes and walking sticks on the other.’
11. ‘Especially when the convention itself will be nothing but a bunch of boring windbags telling lie after lie.’
12. ‘I met some very nice and clever people
13. and deflated a couple of well-filled windbags.’
14. ‘I can think of no one in the whole world who could play a scheming windbag of a womaniser better than him!’
15. ‘Ok
16. so I'm really nothing like him but if I was to be reincarnated as a pompous windbag that'd be the type I'd like to be.’
17. ‘‘He's a pumped-up windbag who should be denied the oxygen of publicity
18. ’ she says.’
19. ‘One wonders why this paragon of windbags campaigned so passionately for the republican cause in a country he hadn't lived in for over thirty years.’
20. ‘It is a document that some of our meat-headed media windbags would be well advised to read - even if they have to move their lips while they're doing it.’
21. ‘The windbags of ‘the international community’ huffily insisted that he did.’
22. ‘‘What an old windbag
23. ’ Saba sneered at King Mondo.’
24. ‘Making fun of political windbags is a tried and true method of reducing their influence and puncturing their ridiculous high opinion of themselves.’
25. ‘But the meeting continued way beyond its allotted time frame
26. mainly due to the fact that the pompous windbags who called the meeting in the first place couldn't stick to an agenda if their mothers' lives depended on it.’
27. ‘It died because the Democrats and their media groupies overplayed their hand
28. as usual
29. and so turned a real scandal into just another fake scandal for senatorial windbags to huff and puff over.’
30. ‘Most had been disagreeable
31. pompous windbags at best.’
32. ‘I trust they also will eventually tire of blow-hard windbags - whether the wind is blowing from the left or the right.’
33. ‘As is usually the case with Washington windbags
34. these claims are hyperbolic.’
35. ‘It's because
36. on balance
37. I think he's a pompous windbag.’