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bombast

[ bom-bast ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

bombast

/ ˈbɒmbæst /

Origin of bombast¹

1560–70; earlier bombace padding < Middle French < Medieval Latin bombācem, accusative of bombāx; bombax family

Origin of bombast¹

C16: from Old French bombace , from Medieval Latin bombāx cotton; see bombacaceous

“Magic” and “Midnight” were both excellent as well, replacing stadium bombast with a newfound sense of simplicity and restraint.

In the midst of all her bombast, I suddenly saw her as the sad, lonely old woman she was.

Bombast was trumping originality and critics were at the end of their ropes with it.

It's over-the-top bombast of girls under sheets and breaking Champagne glasses in slow motion and of course explosions and fire.

A few weeks later the target of his bombast had been expanded to all mental health patients.

The notion was simply that the young idlers about town met together to acquire perfection in the arts of bombast and exaggeration.

To search for thoughts to trail along in a series results in thinnest bombast.

I look upon it all as an empty, insolent piece of bombast; but whatever it is, we must not be taken unawares.

Indeed, the man seems to have been a second Paracelsus, lacking only in the dishonesty and bombast of the latter.

Can it be possible that he believes that proclamation will be acceptable to them—that mixture of cajolery and bombast.

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