stuff and nonsense
Example Sentences
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Hewing to genre conventions, Iris frees herself from Josh’s control and fights back, forcing him to whip up a plan B involving a fine-spun alibi made of stuff and nonsense.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
Peter who has dementia had been at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff when he was diagnosed with Covid-19, a virus he had dismissed as "stuff and nonsense".
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2020
As for Princess Margaret, she never quite understood the stuff and nonsense to which she found herself drawn.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2017
True art is when the human psyche's lust for stuff and nonsense is baldly and boldly revealed so that we all weep with shame at just how pathetically self-indulgent we have become.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014
Now you see, if you go on scrubbing and swishing about with besoms behind me, I shall keep writing all sorts of stuff and nonsense, and it'll all be printed.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
