/ˌbämˈbastik/
Meaning
- high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.
- an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex, different creed and color
Sample Sentences
- The Democrats have not been nearly as bombastic in their opposition to Donald Trump as Republicans were when President Obama was president of the United States.
- Nicolas Sarkozy has broken his studied silence in a bombastic op-ed.
- And most live music is bombastic, because that’s the only way to make money in 2014.
Related words
pompous, blustering, ranting, blathering; verbose, wordy, turgid, periphrastic, euphuistic, orotund, pleonastic, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin, lofty, overwrought, convoluted;pretentious, affected, ostentatious, grandiloquent, magniloquent, fustian
Further reading
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bombastic#examples