noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of gasbag
Example Sentences
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By the next scene, we see that Little Bill has grabbed the spotlight for himself, ballooning into a gasbag of self-importance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
More accurately, it stars “Tim Heidecker,” the megalomaniacal, incompetent, platitudinous right-wing gasbag played by the eponymous actor, who hosts the movie-review webseries On Cinema at the Cinema.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2017
As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star’s gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
It’s cited out of context all the time as a pearl of genuine wisdom, but in the playing it’s traditionally rendered as just one of the many aphorisms spouted by an old gasbag.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010
There was still a strong sideways pull from the gasbag, which was now nearly empty, but which as a result was catching the wind like a sail.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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