twaddle

Example Sentences

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He told the court he was "just talking twaddle" and was writing things down as he thought them.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

Even if they lose this case—and I think they probably will—they’ll still have gotten away with a whole lot of twaddle that should have landed them in hot water.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2023

To "The View," McCain was more than a spout of parbaked twaddle delivered with tell-it-like-it-is confidence.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2021

You dismiss heritage as “unctuous twaddle about ancestral bravery in war.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2020

Almost at once the Bogdanov paper excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson