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blustery

[ bluhs-tuh-ree ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

characterized by strong, gusty wind:
It's a blustery day, with a stiff westerly whipping across the valley keeping the temperature on the cool side.
full of bravado and empty boasts, threats, or protests:
Without these two arrogant, blustery leaders, the two sides would likely have solved their problems and worked things out.

Middleton's navy MaxMara jacket and Orla Kiely skirt, however, were no match for the blustery weather.

By turns bossy, blustery, and self-deprecating, Frida insinuates herself into every aspect of the place.

A blustery man I met when I was young, a painter, came up with a sentence he liked to say because he believed it was true.

And Winpisinger was a piece of work: a blustery, belligerent, union militant.

Joo delivered a fairly specific, but blustery, private proposal from the North Koreans.

Such a horrid blustery day, and heavy rain coming down this morning.

He seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition; much tossed about in the controversies of his day.

The 22d was very blustery, sometimes snowing; very disagreeable traveling.

The morning was showery and blustery, and it was in vain that Dopsy and Mopsy hinted their desire to be driven to the meet.

They came dressed in furs—mink, marten and Hudson seal—for it was a bleak, blustery day.

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