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balderdash

[bawl-der-dash] / ˈbɔl dərˌdæʃ /


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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

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright decried the story as "balderdash", while British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said there was "not a single shred of evidence" to support it.

From BBC • May 6, 2019

In other words, a person full of balderdash.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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