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Meanings of balderdash in English

Portuguese
conversa fútil
Catalan
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Trivial nonsense.

conversa fútil
Synonyms
Examples for "piffle"
Examples for "piffle"
1
I am much obliged for your help, but you are talking piffle.
The Pawns Count
2
Listen: Instead of all this impossible piffle, let's start a real story.
Jean of the Lazy A
3
One hoarse raucous piffle and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments!
One Third Off
4
He wasted money, energy and wrote piffle, was his damning verdict.
The Guardian
5
The leader of the boys said: Aw, piffle, cut it out.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
1
I will have no fiddle-faddle in such a matter, he said courageously.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
2
No more they make a fiddle-faddle About a Hessian horse or saddle.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
3
Perhaps I ought not to; but this isn't a case to fiddle-faddle over.
The Ragged Edge
4
And so here we are on the verge of a fiddle-faddle.
The Guardian
5
Lively as a cricket; none of your stuck-up, fiddle-faddle notions.
Tempest and Sunshine
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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