bombast

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

Translation

n. discours ou écriture pompeux ou prétentieux
adj. utilisant un langage grandiloquent; pompeux
Word Forms
Plurielbombasts

Phrases & Collocations

bombastic style

style ampoulé

Example Sentences

cut through the bombast

transpercer la rhétorique

see through the bombast

voir à travers la rhétorique

Real-world Examples

Not everyone was convinced by such bombast.

Tout le monde n'était pas convaincu par un tel grandiloquence.

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.

Les collègues ont rapidement découvert que Kennedy était une combinaison étrange de grandiloquence et d'autocontrôle.

Source: Time

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

Pendant un certain temps, au Caire et à Beyrouth, il a travaillé pour Radio Palestine, mais la grandiloquence et les slogans de la politique le répulsent.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

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

Ce n'est pas la grandiloquence qui lui a soigné sa clavicule cassée avec du borax.

Source: Pan Pan

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

Après tout ce genre de grandiloquence, vous savez, je peux le faire mieux, les Américains ne nous aident pas.

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" .

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.

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.

Parfois, il était très agréable à vivre, malgré son défaut de ne pas permettre à quiconque en sa présence de mentir, de faire passer une fausse excuse ou de se livrer à la grandiloquence.

Source: Gone with the Wind

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