Rogue calmed a politician being bombastic (11)
I believe the answer is:
declamatory
'bombastic' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'rogue calmed a politician' is the wordplay.
'rogue' indicates anagramming the letters (letters go rogue).
'politician' becomes 'tory' (term for a Conservative Party politician).
'calmed' anagrammed gives 'declam'.
'declam'+'a'+'tory'='DECLAMATORY'
'being' is the link.
(Another definition for declamatory that I've seen is " Noisy and rhetorical".)
I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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