blusterer

I disregard the blusterer, but this is the sort of man who says rather less than he means."

And he would have to maintain his role as fool and blusterer.

Oskar was a blusterer, but if that didn't work he had no second weapon.

"How'd a blusterer like that get promoted to governor, anyway?"

But Archie, the blusterer who worked on a loading dock, was by far his most memorable accomplishment.

Harold is a blusterer, his wife a bore.

A burly man with a voice like a resonant cello, he's a gifted blusterer.

No longer was he a blusterer, deep-toned and swaggering.

He wasn't a very good blusterer.

It was a different Valerian who was speaking now, no swaggerer, no blusterer.

In conversation, Mr. Siegel is more like a gentle, thoughtful bear than a blusterer.

American and allied forces suffered dozens of casualties, not thousands, in winning their lightning victory over Iraq's sadistic blusterer.

The blusterer had to be deflated.

"He talks big and tough," the President said, "but the one time I met him he looked like a typical blusterer.

Shingebis obeyed the summons, and sent the blusterer howling to his home.

"Is that a challenge, old blusterer?"

Even Teddy Roosevelt, the very personification of bold action, was in the eyes of many just a blusterer.

Sultry heart and cold head; where these meet, there ariseth the blusterer, the "Saviour."

Brangwen, good-humoured but impatient, spoiled by Tilly, was an easy blusterer.

Ornilan was not a blusterer who hurled wild threats like his soldier's javelins.

"Quoting Martel won't help either, old blusterer."

The meaning deteriorated through the 17th century through "fine fellow", "blusterer", to "harasser of the weak".

Not just the strutting, trustbusting, game-hunting blusterer, all teeth and mustache, who struts across the American imagination.

But it is not the danger of the noble man to turn a good man, but lest he should become a blusterer, a scoffer, or a destroyer.