Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
A speech inflated by excessive verbiage.
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Examples for "rant "
Examples for "rant "
1 Let me repeat an admonition from my own rant in today's paper.
2 If things break, there will be a rant immediately following these words.
3 Eszterhas senior said he and his family were terrified during the rant .
4 The first two times a halting apology gave way to a rant .
5 Manchester Utd v S Prague: The annual Roy Keane rant arrived yesterday.
1 Typical far-right religious stuff -the decay of society, blah blah blah .
2 They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah - blah and the objective correlative of the doodad.
3 I keep going, blah blah blahing, clenching the phone in my hand.
4 Love,' blah , blah , blah , she put everybody's names here, even Headmaster Merlin.
5 Eighty percent will soon be able to drink the water, blah blah blah .
1 No, Sir, we deny that this theory is merely unfounded feminist claptrap .
2 He thought it was claptrap and could not think of such a thing.
3 But I didn't believe that claptrap any more than they did.
4 Some of your readers, judging from their letters, regard this as creationist claptrap .
5 Some of the Tory orators had employed what was then a favourite claptrap .
1 I brought with me some sweets, and wore a threadbare fustian suit.
2 The regal ermine and the murderer's fustian alike obtain their enviable niche.
3 It is true, my coat is fustian , and my whole accoutrement plebeian.
4 They deal with the spurious and fustian from cradle to grave.
5 You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.
1 The bombast and ignorance shown in some of these is very amusing.
2 More likely the remark was just a common piece of evangelical bombast .
3 My impressions, though produced by a conversation thoroughly free from bombast , deepened.
4 Pitt made a short speech, excellently argumentative, and not bombast , nor tedious.
5 Nonsense gives place to sense, bombast to a hard-boiled and cynical lucidity.
6 On that Wednesday morning, he spoke with confidence, but the bombast was gone.
7 Beyond the bombast on both sides, Syria's daily misery will continue.
8 His bombast had infuriated Jude to the point where she refused to reply.
9 He hates puns and bombast , demands refinement in speech and restraint in manners.
10 The entire contravention of these principles results in bombast or doggerel.
11 We are misled by the chatter of politicians and the bombast of Congress.
12 He had a written speech with him-fustianand bombast , I imagine.
13 He dismissed questions about his pugnacity and bombast being part of an act.
14 There is a message, only he does not engage in bombast or rhetoric.
15 Post-Jackson, the Super Bowl entertainment became the insanely over-the-top bombast we have today.
16 Through the welter of bombast , excitement and emotion we had grounded on reality.
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