balderdash
Example Sentences
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But despite “I Want You Back’s” heaping helping of the usual rom-com balderdash, both Slate and Day provide enough underdog charisma to make us root for their characters, if not their wrongheaded quests.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2022
For Mr. Merrill of Harrison Street, the romanticization of remote work is balderdash.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021
The creators could have used the word hooey or baloney or balderdash.
From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2020
Let’s all put the kibosh on ageist content and end all this poppycock and balderdash about older Americans.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2019
He expected her to say no, and then say something about opportunities, or any of the balderdash the grown-ups always told him.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing balderdash
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