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
School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
Vocabulary lists containing twaddle
The Very, Very Far North
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"Abner & Me" by Dan Gutman, Chapters 11–14
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