📚 Bloviate, verb. 🔉 /ˈbləʊvɪeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (US • informal • no object): Talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way. ❗️ Examples: 1. But that is nothing compared to the 4-page bio on her shameless web site, which bloviates at length about, among other things, her ‘honorary degree’. 2. Until this is corrected, a president and secretary of state bloviating about freedom and democracy is received by the rest of the world as mere window-dressing. 3. He spent his entire 10 minutes bloviating and talking about how much he liked him that the the time ran out and he didn't have time to even pose a question. 4. He had apparently been bloviating about civilian casualties caused by military actions. 5. We may have to listen to this obnoxious windbag for another 6 years, bloviating on the Senate floor unrestricted. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic