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windily
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈwɪn.dəl.i/ us /ˈwɪn.dəl.i/
in a way that is confident and continues for a long time, but does not say anything useful or interesting:
His tone is windily self-important, but the intellectual content of what he says is embarrassingly slight.
The professor had a habit of rambling on windily during his lectures.
The book is weighed down by a lot of windily pretentious writing by an author trying to show off his vocabulary.
The TV pundit was windily defending the senator against the accusations, claiming that they were politically motivated.
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