| 词汇 | bombastic |
| 释义 | bombastic adjective mainly disapprovinguk /bɒmˈbæs.tɪk/ us /bɑːmˈbæs.tɪk/ forceful and confident in a way that is intended to be very powerful and impressive, but may not have much real meaning or effect: 夸夸其谈的;夸大的 His bombastic manner is a front for deep insecurity. a bombastic preacher夸夸其谈的鼓吹者 a bombastic statement夸大的言辞 Related words bombast bombastically This bombastic tycoon was reduced to a quivering wreck at the thought of flying on a plane. There is a difference between an authoritative leader and a bombastic bully. The rhetoric on both sides has been bitter and bombastic. A critic dismissed the film as bombastic rubbish. The album concludes with a bombastic rock ballad. The music sounds crass and bombastic. Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogant arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic egotistically patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously popinjay swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom throw your weight aroundidiom Examples of bombasticbombastic There seemed to be no room in the post-war world for bombastic statements about national glory. Some deemed the scale of the museum 'bombastic' and completely inappropriate for the changed political situation. Each new group of arrivals, or conquerors, to use their more militaristic and bombastic term, imposed its culture and its ways on the autochthonous commoners. His vocal style is usually loud and high, defiant and bombastic. That acting style has to be large, imperious, and histrionic - which in no way means hollow, bombastic, or artificial. The music of these instruments was the counterpart to the most bombastic forms of orchestral music. It is a noisy, bombastic fake. It is a monument of bombastic proportions. Petruchio performs all the business of the vice: the bombastic entrance, playful audience address, the loud mockthreats, and outlandish gear. Pencil too, he notes, leads to drawings that, with their many revisions, provide a better narrative of the evolution of a design than more bombastic pen drawings. We have our own views on whether those bombastic promises have been fulfilled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is needed at the moment is not the making of bombastic gestures such as the extending of sanctions which could not be effectively implemented. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a terrible thing once again to hear these bombastic ravings of a dictator coming over the radio. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to put over to the public that scientists are not cocksure or bombastic and do not pretend to know everything. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One thing that must be rubbed in tonight is that all that bombastic pretence has collapsed in the face of the realities of the situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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