twaddle

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

First, it is no exaggeration to say that this statement may be the most self-serving pile of bombastic twaddle Silicon Valley has ever created.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 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

No one would look her in the eye for fear of getting an earful of Tonist twaddle.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

“A gift for all of us to enjoy,” The Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner twaddled this week.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013

All that day, morning, afternoon, and evening, I laboured or twaddled at arithmetic with Mr. Howse.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

And he twaddled of VON MOLTKE, and his German Army Corps; "Flattering the tax-payers' vanity," and much similar insanity, In a style that lacked urbanity, till the thing became a bore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

They had twaddled and stormed about his immorality, but his praise of Napoleon sent them into diabolic frenzy.

From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Walter Runciman

We twaddled a great deal over the speech.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough

If Jules existed in my real life, I'd have started screening calls to avoid her twaddling on months ago.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010

You feel that their edgy suburban twaddling may be the way Hollywood heavies really behave in private.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is seated at a table with three other men, twaddling a fat cigar between the finger and thumb of one hand and holding five fanned cards in the other.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

It is true that he fell short of great accomplishment and that he was guilty of small foibles which Haydon exaggerated into “petticoat twaddling and Grandisonian cant.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

He arrays himself as it were in his victory, enthrones himself in his foolishness, triumphs in his senseless twaddling.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet