Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
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Examples for "humbug "
Examples for "humbug "
1 Of course some in Detroit have an answer to Lovins's visions: humbug .
2 Never let it be said I was bah humbug about Christmas traditions.
3 Nothing can hurt so much in the end as lies and humbug .
4 All this unification of nationalities is the great humbug of the century.
5 Let us say in passing, that the American does not like humbug .
1 For nearly 20 years, Shemar Moore has been making the ladies drool .
2 A long, glistening thread of drool detached itself and fell onto me.
3 Water began to drool through the holes and over the opened-up skin.
4 They are serious seizures, but he doesn't shake and drool or convulse.
5 But I made it safely, without collapsing into a puddle of drool .
1 I wish you'd drop that sort of sentimental bosh , Skipper; especially now.
2 Oh, he wanted to come, but I put the kye - bosh on that.
3 What you call bosh is the only thing men dare die for.
4 He must surely be aware that much he said was superstitious bosh .
5 If my reader finds this bosh and abracadabra, all right for him.
1 Don't believe that tosh about Lansdowne Road being dead in the water.
2 Say how grieved you are and all the rest of the tosh .
3 Finish by asking him does he get paid for this tosh .
4 I mean, roping you in to listen to this frightful tosh !
5 What if this was sentimental tosh , the cruelest lie of all?
1 Yet some critics in the health care profession say that's all baloney .
2 Other scientists said baloney - that powerful new cooling methods would eventually condense them.
3 He said: We want no more stunts or PR baloney from Boris.
4 Award-winning science fiction author Brian Aldiss has another term for it: baloney .
5 That was a lot of baloney you had in the paper .
1 All I tried to do was to make her forget the tommyrot .
2 I think Humphrey's a fakir, and all this sort of thing tommyrot .
3 And we all said it was tommyrot , and she was to tell us.
4 Seems to me it's as good as the tommyrot you write.
5 Can you imagine our minds embracing each other, thrilling at the contact,-oh , it 's tommyrot .
1 He turned his head and looked at the hatchet in the boat's bilgewater .
2 The hatchet still lay in the bloody bilgewater .
3 At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an "aqueous matter" resembling bilgewater .
4 Tess suddenly found herself pinned to the ceiling of her boat with bilgewater surging around her head.
5 The tracks led off the beaten track, down the path not taken, through a sleepy hollow, over a tarn of brackish bilgewater .
1 I hesitated; then resolved on a taradiddle , - in Marjorie 's interest.
2 You'll have to-Another little taradiddle in his chest.
3 His heart did a jagged taradiddle and he held his breath... but then it settled again.
4 Considering that it was about six-thirty, I wanted to ask who was telling a taradiddle now; but I resisted the temptation, and replied-
5 Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told taradiddles .
1 Nobody will care about you if you are a phony boloney .
2 I speared the tiny ball of boloney a Specimen to examine.
4 Such is not appearing to happen so I will go eat a boloney & cheese sandwich with a glass of ice tea with it.
5 "You've got a piece of boloney stuck in your teeth Ray." While I poked around my Canines he spoke to me very sincere.
1 Well;- Itoldhim a tarradiddle of course.
2 It will be for you, gentlemen, to decide where there is any grain of truth in all this tarradiddle .
3 I've no right to come here after all the tarradiddles I told you.
4 'There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?'
5 "So it seems you can't tell a tarradiddle for me?"
1 Not that I'm buyin' this technical twaddle for one minute, you understand.
2 Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical twaddle ?
3 They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather.
4 We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.
5 The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
6 To have to listen to all this well-meant twaddle was misery indeed.
7 Brilliant stuff and exactly what's needed as frankly Tendulkar is bowling rat 's - twaddle .
8 Youthful emotions are 'bosh and twaddle , ' youthful ideas, 'crude, sir, very crude!'
9 But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. 5.
10 To talk of the majestic roar of the lion is mere majestic twaddle .
11 And I don't want to read undigested twaddle by some amateurs.
12 A Roman thou art though much taken with the twaddle of a Jew.
13 None of your story-book twaddle about nursing through the illness, and all that.
14 Such twaddle only serves to obscure the great questions at issue.
15 We will break the conference, or I shall twaddle to extinction.
16 This talk of fighting for somebody else is all lofty twaddle .
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