gobbledygook

[ US /ˌɡɑbəɫdiˈɡʊk/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɒbə‍ldˌɪɡʊk/ ]
NOUN
  1. incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
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How To Use gobbledygook In A Sentence

  • It is one of a torrent of jargon words, phrases, clichés and bureaucratic gobbledygook that have grown to clutter our language, and which were highlighted last week by the Plain English Campaign.
  • To the layperson it's gobbledygook unless, firstly, you know your law, and, secondly, you know the business.
  • The ceremony also includes the dreaded Golden Bull booby prizes for the year's most baffling gobbledygook.
  • Furthermore, a good chunk of his theory is untestable metaphysics, psychobabble and gobbledygook.
  • This bill is gobbledygook; it is twaddle; it is rubbish.
  • Congressman Maury Maverick, who coined the term gobbledygook (1944). (wikipedia) There May Be Truth in the McCain-Palin "Maverick" Claim
  • While we might take solace in our own anthropic prejudice, dismissing the nonsensical communiqués of such chatbots as nothing more than computerized gobbledygook, we might unwittingly miss a chance to study firsthand the babytalk of an embryonic sentience, struggling abortively to awaken from its own phylum of oblivion. Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • The results are usually tushery and gadzookery — a form of higher gobbledygook. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, like the pamphleteers of old, dozens of community radio stations plastered on-air broadsheets all across the country, translating regulatory gobbledygook into straightforward rallying cries.
  • And if, as I believe he does, Woods wonders why the academic discourse on literature is conducted in a language called gobbledygook, then the answer is surely perfectly clear. Abandoned attempt
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