bombast

[US]/ˈbɒmbæst/
[UK]/ˈbɑːmbæst/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. charla o escritura pomposa o pretenciosa
adj. utilizando un lenguaje grandilocuente; pomposo
Word Forms
Pluralbombasts

Phrases & Collocations

bombastic style

estilo pomposo

Example Sentences

cut through the bombast

cortar la fanfarronería

see through the bombast

ver a través de la fanfarronería

Real-world Examples

Not everyone was convinced by such bombast.

No todos quedaron convencidos por tal fanfarronería.

Source: Past exam questions of new reading types in the postgraduate entrance examination.

Colleagues soon found Kennedy to be an odd combination of bombast and self-effacement.

Los colegas pronto descubrieron que Kennedy era una combinación extraña de fanfarronería y modestia.

Source: Time

For a while, in Cairo and Beirut, he worked for Radio Palestine, but the bombast and sloganeering of politics repelled him.

Por un tiempo, en El Cairo y Beirut, trabajó para Radio Palestina, pero la fanfarronería y la retórica política lo repelieron.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

It's not bombast that I cured her broken bosom bone with borax.

No es fanfarronería lo que curé su esternón fracturado con bórax.

Source: Pan Pan

After all this sort of bombast, you know, I can do it better, the Americans aren't helping us.

Después de todo este tipo de fanfarronería, ya sabes, yo puedo hacerlo mejor, los estadounidenses no nos están ayudando.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

" All the bombast which our opponent has stolen from Bossuet and lavished upon you, " said the advocate, " has done you good" .

Toda la fanfarronería que nuestro oponente ha robado de Bossuet y ha derrochado sobre ustedes, dijo el abogado, les ha hecho bien.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part Four)

" There are a lot of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software, " Dobbs said, his usual bombast strangely absent.

Hay muchas opiniones sobre la integridad de las elecciones, las irregularidades del voto por correo, de las máquinas de votación y del software de votación, dijo Dobbs, con su habitual fanfarronería sorprendentemente ausente.

Source: New York Times

Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.

A veces, era una persona muy agradable de vivir, a pesar de su desafortunada costumbre de no permitir que nadie a su presencia mintiera, ofreciera una falsa apariencia o se entregara a la fanfarronería.

Source: Gone with the Wind

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