0 present participle of pontificate --
1 to speak or write and give your opinion about something as if you knew everything about it and as if only your opinion was correct: --
There has been a great deal of pontificating about the environment and about painting trains different colours.
No matter what anyone says in pontificating about the family, there is another respect in which our fiscal system is anti-family.
This is no time for pontificating; it is time for getting on.
He should look at the problem before pontificating upon it.
We all have known fellow-trustees who waste valuable time pontificating on subjects that they know little about.
Too much time is spent in pontificating, in psuedo-psychology.
Then he could do something useful instead of pontificating to empty churches and the rest of us about how people should spend their hard-earned money.
Nobody has got as far as that, and we on this side are not pontificating.
