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UK
/wˈɪndbæɡ/
]
NOUN
- a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
How To Use windbag In A Sentence
- Most people appear to regard all this future stuff as nothing more than pointless navel gazing, needless windbaggery, useless pontificating, worthless sounding off and aimless chatter.
- It wants to stand as a sweeping spectacle of one of the darkest chapters in our young nation's history, but it only wants to accomplish it with words, not deeds, bombastic brays from bearded windy windbags, not gripping historical drama.
- We'll see if he follows through on the windbaggery. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
- It died because the Democrats and their media groupies overplayed their hand, as usual, and so turned a real scandal into just another fake scandal for senatorial windbags to huff and puff over.
- I can think of no one in the whole world who could play a scheming windbag of a womaniser better than him!
- Fortunately, this windbaggery can often be ignored, as fewer and fewer Americans really take the elite media's opinions seriously.
- Ok, 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.
- Stuff the windbaggery about engaging with these people. Times, Sunday Times
- ‘He's a pumped-up windbag who should be denied the oxygen of publicity,’ she says.
- I don't propose to have "-- _shake_ --" an old windbag offering _me_ his blubbery old bosom "-- _shake, shake, SHAKE_ --" at this time of my life! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man