psychobabble
Example Sentences
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It may sound like esoteric psychobabble, or an overemphasis on something that should be inherent in players.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2019
In the end, no such censorship was required; the American contestants were uniformly chaste and polite, their speech sanitized psychobabble cultivated to convey self-awareness, depth, and respect for women.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 10, 2019
Biological theories of and treatments for the brain, notably drugs like Thorazine, lithium, Valium and Prozac, displaced Freudian psychobabble and transformed psychiatry into a truly scientific discipline.
From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2019
Watching ancient Greek rituals transposed so literally to a contemporary context – with contemporary psychobabble to match – can be jolting, to put it mildly.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2015
“Enough with the psychobabble, MC Dr. Phil. Let’s talk counterinsurgency.”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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