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What does bloviate mean?

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Verb
  1. (US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
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These talk-radio hosts lie, distort, and bloviate, and nobody calls them on it.
It is true, however, that most politicians, and those men who need to please and placate their electors, love to bloviate.
All radio talk show hosts blab and bloviate about national security, safe borders, and political accountability.
Folks at the Herald can bloviate all they want, but the truth is that a lot more people in this region buy the Globe than the Herald.
For years I have been using the verb bloviate in reference to speaking in an overblown self-importance.
Someone will come in with a rash and an attending physician will say, 'Oh, this could be arsenic poisoning,' and then bloviate for a while about it, and, of course, it's never actually arsenic poisoning.

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