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bloviatingly en · ADV

Etymology

From bloviating + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a bloviating manner.
   • These days almost any would-be academic can fabricate an irrational thesis, bolster it with bloviatingly portentous phraseology, and release it to the great churn of social media where, even though it can't withstand even a cursory logical examination, it is almost guaranteed to catch the imagination of those whose preconceived biases are already aligned with it. 2015 December 8, Scott Anderson, “ANDERSON: White privilege, gullibility and true racism”, in InfoTel News Ltd:
   • Such bloviatingly empty phrases, not at all atypical, seem lifted from the original Wallese, that debased political dialect, according to Dwight MacDonald, perfected by Henry Wallace... 1988, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic - Volume 199, page 25:
   • A blue moon, a blood moon, a wolf moon and a talking whale featured, naturally enough, in the first week for a giddily long time in which President Donald wasn’t the most bloviatingly repellent American to hit our screens. 2018 February 4, Euan Ferguson, “The week in TV: Trophy: The Big Game Hunting Controversy; Kiri; Spiral and more – review”, in The Guardian:

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