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Meanings of balderdash in English

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Trivial nonsense.

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        Usage of balderdash in English
        1
        His claim that war is never necessary is ill-informed, simplistic, naïve balderdash.
        The Irish Times
        2
        There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
        In the Year of Jubilee
        3
        Of course, any idea of the kind was purely and simply balderdash.
        The Beetle: A Mystery
        4
        This perverse balderdash was getting on the nerves of the deputation.
        South Wind
        5
        The first two lines are priggish, and the last three mere poetic balderdash.
        The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
        6
        Police and all that; names an' addresses and all that balderdash.
        Tales of Chinatown
        7
        One woman, one man, and all the rest of the balderdash.
        The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill
        8
        He considered it beneath his dignity to give an answer to such balderdash.
        The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2
        9
        Come and hear my balderdash if you are all right again.
        Denzil Quarrier
        10
        What do you mean by all that balderdash you've been talking?
        Run to Earth: A Novel
        11
        What balderdash has been spoken and written about poor Jack everlastingly misconducting himself!
        The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
        12
        Emerson's response, as I expected, was an emphatic Solomon, balderdash.
        A river in the sky
        13
        That his ordinary language on the platform is balderdash and blasphemy is not true.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 / Little J...
        14
        The frontispiece portrait of the wan, meager, despondent saint promised freedom from romantic balderdash.
        We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
        15
        In fact she is much superior to this extravagance, this vagueness, this presumptuous balderdash.
        International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science —...
        16
        Having first dosed me with blarney, he proceeded to deluge the legislature with balderdash.
        Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
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