How To Use Balderdash In A Sentence
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This innocent rhetoric, from the realm of religious-ethical balderdash, appears _a good deal less innocent_ when one reflects upon the tendency that it conceals beneath sublime words: the tendency to _destroy life_.
The Antichrist
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'Brother Jonathan' as he had killed every journal in which he was permitted to pour out his vapid balderdash.
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3
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‘What I have heard tonight is a bunch of balderdash,’ she said of council's concerns.
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So people are wondering if this person used the words 'cripes' or 'balderdash' much.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is balderdash disguised as genuine debate.
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Given that the paper printed tens of thousands of words of willful balderdash from 2001 to 2003, the admission leaves something to be desired, but that's scarcely surprising.
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Neither was she one of your brazen-faced jilts, with nothing but flimsy balderdash in their talk, and a libertine forwardness in their manners.
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There's a diplomatic word for that: balderdash.
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His remarks are utter balderdash from start to finish and illustrate the truly lamentable decline of science into ideological propaganda.
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Chances are that they already know it's balderdash but are enjoying the idea too much to give it up.
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And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
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This is the agreeable potation, extolled by the Londoners, as the finest water in the universe — As to the intoxicating potion, sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdashed with cyder, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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But in recent days the government has stepped up its defense of the plans, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday describing criticism of the tax as "bunkum" and "balderdash.
Canberra Doesn't Retreat on Profits Tax
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Yes, there is the standard tawdry bedroom balderdash that sells most tell-all cinematic confessionals.
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Although it is all highfalutin balderdash, a semblance of sense does surface here and there - for example, in the scenery and the cast of characters.
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I don't know what trick question those 30 percent of respondents were asked, but the answer they are said to have given is balderdash.
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He claims that Burkean conservatives believe in a natural, immutable order of things - which is balderdash.
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As to Lu's performance, so much of what she has both done and said recently has been embarrassing balderdash.
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Of course all of this "aboveboard" balderdash is accompanied by a right wing screed circulating on the internet.
Top McCain Surrogates Questioning Obama's American-Ness
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Within a few days our definition dominated the first two pages of Google search results - taking Balderdash competition to the next level.
Forbes.com: News
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Zero-sum budgets bring out the worst mix of balderdash and partisanship among politicians.
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There's so much balderdash associated with shutting down my office for a trip that I rarely manage to get much sleep on the night before.
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‘Such self-improvement balderdash will do nothing but relegate you to a career in mediocrity,’ Eliot contends.
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Some claim that this is balderdash and that the warming of the Atlantic waters this year is due to simple luck.
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Perhaps more relevantly, he is also widely credited as being the first ‘spin-doctor’, a claim or accusation he robustly rebuts in this book as ‘all bunkum and balderdash’.
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I've got to say that it's absolute balderdash and poppycock.
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Personally, I think that argument is a load of balderdash.
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The little tiddledywinks business that I've got to learn -- all the value there is in the mass of balderdash about manners and dress -- I can learn it in a few lessons.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
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This is so much balderdash that you wonder how it can be repeated with a straight face.
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I don't know what trick question those 30 percent of respondents were asked, but the answer they are said to have given is balderdash.
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Did you go to some estate agents ' college where they teach you that type of complete balderdash ?
PROSPECT HILL
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Most of it is balderdash, and has very little, if anything, to do with the appalling rate of fatalities on our roads.
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It's the tool I use to measure malarkey—also known as balderdash, hogwash and flimflammery—in politics.
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In professional terms, this is referred to as our ‘mission statement,’ or a ‘statement of priorities,’ or perhaps ‘total balderdash.’
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I've got to say that it's absolute balderdash and poppycock.
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Despite the operational success of the high-quality Australian personnel, that contribution was niggardly and certainly not reflective of the public relations balderdash that accompanied it.
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Somniloquy calls balderdash again, be in namelyMorpheusSpeak in or give out some kind of sound, it is clear sentence sometimes, toot Nang of mutter to oneself does not know what to saying sometimes.
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Of course the poll was balderdash, out of date by three years, but Sir David had dredged it up for this particular occasion.
CORMORANT
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Eventually, he discovered a home for his talents in the world of frontier journalism, where balderdash in the cause of boosterism was rarely considered a vice.
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As to what Her Ladyship had to say about the proms I can sum up thus: codswallop, which is code for ‘balderdash’.
Archive 2008-03-09
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And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
