palaver

The facts expose that claim as just so much palaver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Kéré’s strong affinity for his native land informs his practice — he references local symbols like the baobab or palaver tree; a traditional blue boubou garment he wore as a child.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2022

Perhaps one upside of the palaver is that Radnor residents have become more politically engaged.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021

It's all such a palaver - washing everything and making sure it's all hygienic.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2020

Then there was always a palaver with the greatcoat as she got going again, and near misses with puddles.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

He did not just excavate the ethos of Africa from bygone times, he also reflected the present: bringing to life everyone from the politicians to the prostitutes, and prophesied the palavers that were to come.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2020

A girl palavers with a strange man with a tie on his head.

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2017

A minor palaver ensued, prolonged as much as possible by the sort of internet crusaders who devote their lives to prolonging minor palavers.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012

An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trades’ union delegate of England palavers with the working-men’s societies of the eastern states; whence he gets his information of Transatlantic polemics.

From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Eons ago, in the dark ages of video stores, adventurers navigated labyrinthine aisles and palavered with part-time archmaesters to find treasured artifacts of the fantasy film genre.

From The Verge ● Jun. 2, 2018

All week long, under giant camelthorn trees at Serowe, thatched-hut capital of the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland in South Africa, the tar-black chieftains of the Bamangwato tribe pondered and palavered.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the back country, often carried in a hammock, the traditional mode of travel for Liberian VIPs, he palavered endlessly with jungle chiefs.

From Time Magazine Archive

He bowed and palavered, and got out of the way as quickly as possible.

From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

The council got together and palavered for an hour, and concluded that there was no chance whatever of the Iroquois venturing to attack such a powerful place as Gloucester.

From True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Such palavering is wasted time for a woman facing a literal deadline.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

Mr. Suh’s preoccupation is with the construction and collapse of identity, which we witness both in the Charlie Chan scenes and in those that feature Frank and his friends rehearsing and palavering.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2015

Fifteen months ago, the Central broke off merger talks with the Pennsylvania, the biggest U.S. railroad, after palavering for 14 months without agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

While palavering with Jack Paar before millions of viewers not long ago, Georgie went on and on about his watch, a Bulova.

From Time Magazine Archive

As to the protection, I knew from the first that was all fudge; so as we’ve lost too much time already palavering about it, come along, my brave fellow, without more ado.”

From The Two Shipmates by William Henry Giles Kingston