as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
on election night TV's self-important pundits let loose a fusillade of flatulent pontifications
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Recent Examples of flatulent
Climate change is causing various ant species of Colorado’s Gregory Canyon to alter their traditional ranges, the shells of East Coast mussels to grow more porous, herring to arrive earlier in the Wadden Sea, and Australian scientists to urge the breeding of less flatulent cows.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Gary Oldman plays the disgusting but brilliant Jackson Lamb, Slough House’s flatulent patriarch.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
An aggressively flatulent vision of undarned socks, rumpled shirts and unspeakably greasy trench coat, Lamb is invariably surrounded by whiskey bottles and the moldering remnants of Chinese takeout.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
Slow Horses, the wry and flatulent anti-Bond espionage series streaming on Apple TV+, has been exactly the show its relatively cult following has come to love from the day the cast and crew began filming the first episode, says showrunner Will Smith.
—Trey Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Gary Oldman plays the disgusting but brilliant Jackson Lamb, Slough House’s flatulent patriarch.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
An aggressively flatulent vision of undarned socks, rumpled shirts and unspeakably greasy trench coat, Lamb is invariably surrounded by whiskey bottles and the moldering remnants of Chinese takeout.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
Slow Horses, the wry and flatulent anti-Bond espionage series streaming on Apple TV+, has been exactly the show its relatively cult following has come to love from the day the cast and crew began filming the first episode, says showrunner Will Smith.
—Trey Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatulent
rhetorical
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Despite rhetorical nods to sovereignty, the Trump administration has showed little interest in backing most independence movements, like those of the Kurds, throughout the Middle East, or the Catalans, in Spain.—
Ryan D. Griffiths,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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This kind of rhetorical whiplash doesn’t sit right.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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“Flatulent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatulent. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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