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Usage examples for bombastic

1. This rhetoric of thine to me Hath a somewhat bombastic savor. – Faust by Goethe

2. This silence constrained Teleki to avoid the bombastic in his speech. – The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

3. A roar of delight greeted Burton's achievement, for, despite the weight of circumstantial evidence, many of the townspeople, and especially the young men, believed him innocent; and all were delighted to see this indignity heaped upon a bombastic bully who on several previous occasions had rendered himself obnoxious to the people of Plainville by his brutal arrogance. – The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead