twaddle
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In an earlier BBC interview, the party's deputy leader Richard Tice dismissed the claims from Farage's former classmates as "made-up twaddle".
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
Even if they lose this case—and I think they probably will—they’ll still have gotten away with a whole lot of twaddle that should have landed them in hot water.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2023
To "The View," McCain was more than a spout of parbaked twaddle delivered with tell-it-like-it-is confidence.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2021
You dismiss heritage as “unctuous twaddle about ancestral bravery in war.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
No one would look her in the eye for fear of getting an earful of Tonist twaddle.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
“A gift for all of us to enjoy,” The Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner twaddled this week.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013
An occasion for twaddling had come, and this good soul seized it and twaddled into a man's ear who was fainting on the rack.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles
They had twaddled and stormed about his immorality, but his praise of Napoleon sent them into diabolic frenzy.
From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Runciman, Walter
We twaddled a great deal over the speech.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of
And, after weeping the usual quantity, he twaddled, and, after twaddling, he became as pacific as ever, for he went to sleep in his chair.
From Put Yourself in His Place by Reade, Charles
If Jules existed in my real life, I'd have started screening calls to avoid her twaddling on months ago.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010
You feel that their edgy suburban twaddling may be the way Hollywood heavies really behave in private.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is seated at a table with three other men, twaddling a fat cigar between the finger and thumb of one hand and holding five fanned cards in the other.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Am I to be the victim of every twaddling old bore that requires an address?
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
I give 'Johanna Montfakon' and 'Dyveke,' but abbreviated; for the little folks do not like long, twaddling love-stories.
From Pictures of Sweden by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
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