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balderdash

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I wish more professors had tenure and the courage to speak up against waffle and balderdash.

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trivial nonsense

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noun

trivial nonsense

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for balderdash.

Example sentences

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I wish more professors had tenure and the courage to speak up against waffle and balderdash.

2

Why, instead, do I keep hearing such balderdash as, "The poor pay no taxes at all"?Nobody's saying that business people don't add value to the economy.

3

Worming out along the routes of every transaction being free and mutually beneficial is balderdash; tell that to the starving man in the street when you wave some bread under his nose, that he's free to choose.

4

Which is balderdash, of course - but academics are some of the most sexist people in the world, and truly believe the place of the faculty wife is in the kitchen and picking the kids up at school, while her husband is doing all the smart stuff eighteen hours a day and getting ahead.

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How do you use balderdash in a sentence?

I wish more professors had tenure and the courage to speak up against waffle and balderdash.

What does balderdash mean?

trivial nonsense

What part of speech is balderdash?

balderdash is commonly used as noun.