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- noun The behaviour of a
windbag ;excessive orpompous speech ;blather .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Too much windbaggery, not enough content. tom s. says:
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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."
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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His propensity to windbaggery became progressively uncontrollable and members soon followed suit.
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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 2008
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But at Vital Speeches, we reject windbaggery, and toss those speeches out of our office by the flat-shovel-full.
David Murray: Speeches: The Current State of the Oldest Art 2010
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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.
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We'll see if he follows through on the windbaggery.
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But at Vital Speeches, we reject windbaggery, and toss those speeches out of our office by the flat-shovel-full.
David Murray: Speeches: The Current State of the Oldest Art 2010
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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.
Michael J.W. Stickings: Why Newt Gingrich Won't Run in 2012 2009
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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.
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