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pontificate

To express opinions or judgments in a pompous, dogmatic, and self-important manner.

GRESAT

Example

He would pontificate at length about the failings of modern education without ever having set foot in a classroom.

Synonyms

sermonizemoralizedeclaimlecturepreachhold forth

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