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Vain and empty boasting
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rhodomontade
Word definitions for rhodomontade in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (obsolete spelling of rodomontade English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhodomontade \Rhod`o*mon*tade"\, n. See Rodomontade .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. vain and empty boasting [syn: braggadocio , bluster , rodomontade ]
Usage examples of rhodomontade.
Giardini, indeed, convinced that the Count had been talking mere rhodomontade, nudged him with a laugh in his sleeve, as at a good joke in which he flattered himself that he was a partner.
Above all, the highest spirit in the world changes only too easily at the first check into depression, and one might say into a kind of rhodomontade of alarm, the French sauve que peut.
This idea in connection with the cartel of defiance can therefore no longer be made use of in order by such rhodomontade to qualify the inaction of him whose part it is to advance, that is, the offensive.
His summons for surrender was a characteristic bit of impudence, as we have seen, not so much on account of the summons itself, as of the threats and other terms of rhodomontade in which it was couched.
The old hero, with his lewdness and rhodomontade, is excused from the stage.
His reports were without rhodomontade or exaggeration, and his tone uniformly modest, composed, and uninflated.