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
I can’t say I honestly believe such sanctimonious twaddle.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
“A gift for all of us to enjoy,” The Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner twaddled this week.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013
Look at Wordsworth; in his lifetime the general reading public considered him a prosy old gentleman, who twaddled pleasantly about lakes and mountains, and pretty little peasant girls.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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 Walter Runciman
All that day, morning, afternoon, and evening, I laboured or twaddled at arithmetic with Mr. Howse.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
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 Charles Reade
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
A shortish man with a red beard and an invalid wife: wrote twaddling novels.
From Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb
I give 'Johanna Montfakon' and 'Dyveke,' but abbreviated; for the little folks do not like long, twaddling love-stories.
From Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
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