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twaddle
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synonyms: bushwah, tommyrot, flummery, bunkum, blague, tarradiddle, flapdoodle, folderol, stuff and nonsense ???
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Definition:foolish speech or writing; nonsense
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"[...] There is neither morality nor logic in my being a doctor and your being a mental patient, there is nothing but idle chance." "That twaddle I don't understand. . ."
Anton Chekhov. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories .
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"It's condescending twaddle the way she teaches [Othello]. A sort of Black Like Me version of the Moor."
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.74 (2002)
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“Eh, what twaddle!” said one of them, a thin, stern-looking man.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman. Simon & Schuster
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