twaddle

In an earlier BBC interview, the party's deputy leader Richard Tice dismissed the claims from Farage's former classmates as "made-up twaddle".

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 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

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

You dismiss heritage as “unctuous twaddle about ancestral bravery in war.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2020

School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013

The first crucifixion Eden saw he turned as sick as a dog—the first crucifixion Woodcock saw he twaddled in the crucified's ear, left him on the cross, and went on his way well pleased.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles

An occasion for twaddling had come, and this good soul seized it and twaddled into a man's ear who was fainting on the rack.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles

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 Hare, Augustus J. C.

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 Runciman, Walter

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

By the side of twaddling, again, mere rambling grows venial.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport

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 Michelet, Jules