bluster
verb (used without object)
to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
blusteringly
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a word derived from
bluster.
Example Sentences
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Robert, whose infomercials are excerpted in the movie’s opening scenes, is the quintessential TV pitchman, at once blusteringly self-confident and transparently disingenuousness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2011
It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a vast difference between the coarse, rough character, however blusteringly impressive he may be, and the truly strong one.
From In And Out by Edgar Franklin
Of the Ministers present besides Minto, Macaulay seemed rather disposed to go with Palmerston, and talked blusteringly about France, as he probably thought a Secretary of War should.
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville
"I'm not in your shops," returned Morrissy blusteringly.
From Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
