balderdash
Example Sentences
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One would have to be an expert in the field to identify it as total balderdash.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2024
“I am upset on the behalf of young men in America. They cannot listen to this balderdash and this old-timey view of women, which is a caveman view.”
From Washington Times • May 12, 2023
Or in his own words - spat out in a Yorkshire growl - "bunkum and balderdash".
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2023
In the moment, you might have listened to this balderdash and perhaps responded: “Well then, how would you like me to take this?”
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2022
“Balderdash, balderdash, balderdash,” he would whisper to himself when he needed cheering.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
