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
Slough House is headed by the slovenly, flatulent, and frequently intoxicated Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), who routinely heaps verbal abuse on his staff but is nonetheless a brilliant spymaster in his own smelly way.
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Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatulent
rhetorical
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Under the Biden administration, for instance, material and rhetorical support for LGBTQ groups abroad was a prominent element of American diplomacy.—
Ari Shaw,
Foreign Affairs,
17 July 2025
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These sections weren’t just rhetorical flourishes from Murasaki.—
Andrew Paul Jul 16,
Popular Science,
16 July 2025
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“Flatulent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatulent. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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