as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
on election night TV's self-important pundits let loose a fusillade of flatulent pontifications
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Recent Examples of flatulent
And Ernie, to entertain me during the recording, would make flatulent noises.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 May 2024
There was that allegedly flatulent passenger on an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Austin.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
The first two seasons of the British spy show Slow Horses centered on Slough House, the grim London office building where Gary Oldman's unpleasant and flatulent Jackson Lamb rules over his band of MI5 rejects and losers.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2023
There was no sidewalk, so we were pressed right up against the curb, being passed by flatulent motorcycles—their riders helmetless—and eighteen-wheel trucks that were equally loud but at least generated a breeze.
—David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 May 2024
There was that allegedly flatulent passenger on an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Austin.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
The first two seasons of the British spy show Slow Horses centered on Slough House, the grim London office building where Gary Oldman's unpleasant and flatulent Jackson Lamb rules over his band of MI5 rejects and losers.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2023
There was no sidewalk, so we were pressed right up against the curb, being passed by flatulent motorcycles—their riders helmetless—and eighteen-wheel trucks that were equally loud but at least generated a breeze.
—David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
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“Flatulent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatulent. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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