Pontificated

Word PONTIFICATED
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Definitions and meanings of "Pontificated"

What do we mean by pontificated?

To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.

To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.

To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.

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The word "pontificated" in example sentences

In interviews I gave at the wise age of 17 and 18, I pontificated about the beauty of age and wisdom, and blabber on about how I look forward to my first wrinkle. ❋ Paulina Porizkova (2010)

Or would the dangerous and intense operation, after years in the making, have been postponed while politicians pontificated? ❋ Mike Causey (2011)

She also forgot that her boss, President Assad himself, pontificated just weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal to the West and his fellow Arab rulers, that the Syrian people genuinely love him due to his anti-Israel and anti-U.S. policies. ❋ Dr. Josef Olmert (2011)

Local activists mobilized, Internet message boards seethed, talk radio hosts pontificated. ❋ Michael C. Moynihan (2011)

We know that because he refused to rule out a lobbying job even as he pontificated about education, charity, or private enterprise. ❋ RJ (2011)

I've always pontificated loudly that I hate passive heroes, those who sit/stand back and let things happen to them. ❋ Ulysses (2010)

Every unearthable fact of his life was pulled out, torn apart, and pontificated upon by as many half-cocked pundits as had opinions to peddle. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

Many golden sunsets ago Jack Oconner pontificated (something he was very good at) on the magic 270, .. as did others of his time (Jon Jobson) - Sports Afied circ 1950's and 60's etc etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact, the more the Agriculture Department has pontificated about family farmers, the more they have vanished—comprising now only about 1% of the American population. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Since the dawn of humankind, love has been studied, pondered, pontificated and written about by scholars and sages of antiquity. ❋ Andrea Buchanan (2011)

Like many “normal” people, he pontificated about these phenomena without once debating them removed from passion and ideology. ❋ Augusto Cury (2011)

Several months ago MattY pontificated on the need for regional planning in areas involving multiple cities and states and it was obvious he had never heard of regional Councils of Governments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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