flapdoodle

Example Sentences

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For many readers they’re makeweight puffery, eminently skippable, a lot of throat-clearing and flapdoodle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

Most of what Douthat proposes here is either entirely incomprehensible flapdoodle or warmed-over analysis from 20 years ago.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2017

The catalogue essay, which needs an editor intolerant of art-school flapdoodle, doesn’t help much either, although it does contain some useful quotes from Noguchi, elaborating on his work.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2016

She blurs these borders in order to simultaneously honor and disparage art’s greatest article of faith-based flapdoodle: authenticity.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2012

All that flapdoodle," he struck the papers, "didn't mean nothing to me when I thought it came from your amatoore detectives.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward