bloviative

English edit

Etymology edit

From bloviate +‎ -ive.

Adjective edit

bloviative (comparative more bloviative, superlative most bloviative)

(very rare) Tending to bloviate.
- 1880, “House of Representatives. 46th Congress, 2d Session. Mis. Doc. No. 26.: Testimony Relating to the The Ocean National Bank of New York, Taken by The Committee on Banking and Currency”, in Index to the Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-sixth Congress, 1879–'80, volume 2, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 87:
  Q. What is Mr. Frost's reputation here?—A. Well, it is not very savory. He is a noisy talking, bloviative, swearing, rearing, tearing sort of a fellow. If I thought he was a truthteller I should think I was a pretty bad fellow myself , from what he has said about me.
- 2000 January 21, Larry Bone, “Re: AA spells Assisted Alcoholism”, in alt.recovery.addiction.alcoholism‎^[1] (Usenet):
  Throughout our mildly bloviative, sometimes animated exchange, I think we had made assumptions about each other that may have changed. At least for me they have.
- 2000, Stereoscopy, numbers 41–48, International Stereoscopic Union, page 28:
  […] and used it to acquire something odd for my collection of gargantuan gasbags (dirigibles, non-round balloons, and perturbingly plump politicians of a bloviative bent)—an artillery spotting balloon from the Russo-Japanese War, which Geoff found and recommended to me.
- 2005 August 27, Josh Hayes, “Re: Robertson just blatantly lied and there is no way around it”, in talk.origins‎^[2] (Usenet):
  What I've seen of Fox is (check all that apply) boring, stupid, deliberately misleading, venal, bloviative, desperate. But, of course, I've only been able to stomach so much of that before having to watch something more wholesome, like Nip/Tuck (also, of course, on a Fox network!).
- 2010 July 30, Neil X., “Re: (NDC) Fear and Loathing in Silver Springs”, in rec.music.gdead‎^[3] (Usenet):
  Yeah, there's plenty of self-righteousness here, and it's all on your part. Getting all hot and bothered about meal allowances for traveling employees is about as bloviative as it gets.