1. bluster - Noun
2. bluster - Verb
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation. Lyndon B. Johnson
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. Jimmy Carter
How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it? Orson Scott Card
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Robert F. Kennedy
A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result. Markus Zusak
Despite all its bluster about innovation, Apple has become a copycat, and not even a good one. Daniel Lyons