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What does bombastic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
  2. High-sounding but with little meaning.
  3. (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
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Once the initial thrills are over, the movie's bombastic swagger and dime-store gravitas become deadening.
They know exactly when to unleash the bombastic, fuzzy electric guitar to propel a sunny-day strummer to psych rock heaven.
Barrel-chested and bombastic, he's always been the quintessential, larger-than-life, rah-rah leader.
It may be bombastic or vituperative or full of pop psychology, but it seldom presents a critical argument based on facts or logic.
He last worked with them on Born in the USA, an extraordinarily bombastic album that still represents the acme of 1980s stadium rock.
As far as a show of bombastic masculine bravura was concerned, this was a total flop.

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