flapdoodle

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

For many readers they’re makeweight puffery, eminently skippable, a lot of throat-clearing and flapdoodle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

Most of what Douthat proposes here is either entirely incomprehensible flapdoodle or warmed-over analysis from 20 years ago.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2017

The catalogue essay, which needs an editor intolerant of art-school flapdoodle, doesn’t help much either, although it does contain some useful quotes from Noguchi, elaborating on his work.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2016

She blurs these borders in order to simultaneously honor and disparage art’s greatest article of faith-based flapdoodle: authenticity.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2012

A sucker for a smooth line of balloon-juice and flapdoodle.

From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)