Top Bombast Quotes

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Bombast Definition

(n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

(n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.

(n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

(a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

(v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, bombastic style full of neologisms...