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idle words

noun as in flatulence

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Example Sentences

Careless idle words, spoken jestingly, but every one of which went home like a barbed arrow to the mother's heart.

The attack was indiscriminate; spies were employed, and idle words of obscure persons were made grounds of indictment.

I wondered at the words he spake, but I knew that his were no idle words.

I am no sour churl to take offence at the idle words of a foolish boy.

Her keen feminine instinct told her that his simple "I love you" were not the idle words she pretended to think them.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to idle words, such as: babble, boasting, bombast, claptrap, fustian, and turgidity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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