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Bombast (adjective)

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Bo'mbast. adj. [from the substantive.] High sounding; of big sound without meaning.

He, as loving his own pride and purpose,
Evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war. Shakesp. Othello.

Sources: Shakespeare's Othello (60)

Attributes: Adjective (426)

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