verb
- speaking in a pompous or dogmatic way, especially about topics one considers oneself an expert on
Usage: often disapproving
Examples
- He spent the entire dinner pontificating about politics.
- Stop pontificating and listen to what others have to say.
- The professor was pontificating about literature to anyone who would listen.
- She grew tired of his pontificating on subjects he knew little about.
- The politician kept pontificating instead of answering the question directly.
- Rather than pontificating, he should have asked for their opinions first.