To bloviate means to go on and on and on and on, usually in a pompous way. ... When someone bloviates, he is speaking in an empty, pretentious, full-of-himself manner. This word is often associated with politicians, who probably invented bloviating. When someone is talking a lot and saying a little, they're bloviating.

How do you use bloviate in a sentence?

These talk-radio hosts lie, distort, and bloviate, and nobody calls them on it. The speeches amazed listeners with their conversational tone and freedom from the expected pedantry, and nor did they bloviate, in the usual manner of the stump.

What is the origin of bloviate?

Bloviation is a style of empty, pompous, political speech which originated in Ohio and was used by US President Warren G. Harding, who described it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing".