mumbo jumbo

NOUN
  1. language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion
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How To Use mumbo jumbo In A Sentence

  • In medical school, it had seemed so much voodoo to him, pure mumbo jumbo. FAMILY PICTURES
  • No executive could possibly be expected to understand this mumbo jumbo. YELLOW BIRD
  • All the mumbo jumbo about stabilizing"debt-to-GDP" and ignoring interest payments are examples ofbudget-speak, intended to convince people that "something is being done"when little, or nothing, is.
  • They may wrap their writing in jargon and statistical mumbo jumbo, but the ideas themselves are not that hard to grasp (comparative advantage not withstanding!). Lighthouses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • One of these, Francis Moore, wrote: ‘A dreadful bugbear to the women is called Mumbo Jumbo, which keeps the women in awe.’
  • My take on all this macro mumbo jumbo is we have ourselves a good working market in terms of valuation and volatility. Gimme Baidu And Junk Bonds For This Market
  • Not that I've got to see much of it, only a glimpse through the windows, the rest of the day has been a lot of hippie mumbo jumbo. TICKLED PINK
  • As a corporate associate in charge of quarterbacking transactions, I dealt with the various legal specialists and had to learn their mumbo jumbo.
  • TIME magazine which has published numerous essays exploring the relationship between faith, prayer and healing says that even a couple of decades ago, the scientific community would not have dared to propose a double-blind, controlled study of something as intangible as prayer because the scientific temper is all about trying to ridding yourself of remnants of mysticism and obscurantism which is what many people think faith and prayer is – a lot of mumbo jumbo. Does Prayer Heal ?
  • This rambling mumbo jumbo is beyond irrational, to say the least. Think Progress » Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’
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