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Meanings of blah in English

Spanish
altisonancia

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.

altisonancia
Synonyms
Examples for "rant"
Examples for "rant"
1
Let me repeat an admonition from my own rant in today's paper.
The Irish Times
2
If things break, there will be a rant immediately following these words.
Wired
3
Eszterhas senior said he and his family were terrified during the rant.
The Guardian
4
The first two times a halting apology gave way to a rant.
The arms maker of berlin
5
Manchester Utd v S Prague: The annual Roy Keane rant arrived yesterday.
The Irish Times
1
The bombast and ignorance shown in some of these is very amusing.
Diary in America, Series Two
2
More likely the remark was just a common piece of evangelical bombast.
Anthill: a novel
3
My impressions, though produced by a conversation thoroughly free from bombast, deepened.
The Preacher and His Models / The Yale Lectures on Preaching 189...
4
Pitt made a short speech, excellently argumentative, and not bombast, nor tedious.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
5
Nonsense gives place to sense, bombast to a hard-boiled and cynical lucidity.
Brave new world revisited
1
No, Sir, we deny that this theory is merely unfounded feminist claptrap.
The penelopiad
2
He thought it was claptrap and could not think of such a thing.
The Door Into Summer
3
But I didn't believe that claptrap any more than they did.
Brains: a zombie memoir
4
Some of your readers, judging from their letters, regard this as creationist claptrap.
The Irish Times
5
Some of the Tory orators had employed what was then a favourite claptrap.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
1
I brought with me some sweets, and wore a threadbare fustian suit.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
2
The regal ermine and the murderer's fustian alike obtain their enviable niche.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841
3
It is true, my coat is fustian, and my whole accoutrement plebeian.
Four Early Pamphlets
4
They deal with the spurious and fustian from cradle to grave.
White Ashes
5
You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
Usage of blah in English
1
Typical far-right religious stuff -the decay of society, blah blah blah.
Reuters
2
They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah-blah and the objective correlative of the doodad.
Lit: a memoir
3
I keep going, blah blah blahing, clenching the phone in my hand.
Something wicked
4
Love,' blah, blah, blah, she put everybody's names here, even Headmaster Merlin.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
5
Eighty percent will soon be able to drink the water, blah blah blah.
The Irish Times
6
She was going to express concern, family loyalty, blah, blah, blah.
The Fame Game
7
Stress and pressure, pressure and stress, blah blah blah blah blah.
Indecent suggestion
8
They're free, so no complaining about ticket prices blah blah blah.
The Irish Times
9
I love to go out blah blah, but facebook is a different thing.
Climbing Magazine
10
Or: Everything I have to say about blah is cliché .
The Guardian
11
Usually it was just 'Fix your helmet', 'Stand up straight', blah blah blah.
Artemis Fowl
12
That's how Hollywood works-onething leads to another, blah, blah, blah.
Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
13
Instead, I felt blah and ready for it to be over.
Ebony
14
Blond, nineteen, quit school, converted to Islam, joined the Taliban, blah blah blah?
The apocalypse reader
15
Eventually after we split, blah, blah, I started bugging him for the recipe.
The new yorker
16
I just find these women are beneath you, blah, blah, blah.
The new yorker
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common