How To Use Twaddle In A Sentence
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Twiddle-dee is dumb twaddle-dee is sound when the muse is glum so twaddle till you're numb and the muse will come.
Twaddle is Good Too!
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But the very fact that Time can relay such religiose twaddle without blushing or gagging is proof of how far the so-called Mainstream Media -- or M$M, as I've seen it abbreviated on certain blog-warrior sites -- has slid, or as Dizzy Dead would say, slud.
"What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
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I have heard some of them talk vigorous sense — yea, I have been present at polyglot discussions in the old, oak-lined dining-room at Hunsden Wood, where a singular insight was given of the sentiments entertained by resolute minds respecting old northern despotisms, and old southern superstitions: also, I have heard much twaddle, enounced chiefly in
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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This country, you may have noticed, is rife with such narrow-brained twaddlers.
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Where's this self indulgent, meandering twaddle going, I hear you cry, if indeed you're still reading.
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Knock, knock - is there anyone there who believes this twaddle?
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Well, you might have told me that first instead of bombarding me with all that other twaddle.
LADY BE GOOD
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No, it's twaddle. There's no way that shaving can stimulate the hair roots to work harder.
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Yes, it was full of platitudes, buzz-words, admin-speak and woolly bureaucratic twaddle, but in its own earnest way, it was an attempt to take the cultural health of the nation seriously.
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In a recent letter to the South Manchester Reporter the author Cath Stanicliffe claimed that she knew instantly that the Christie claim was "twaddle".
John Leech Nailed, Again: More Good News for Christie
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I don't believe in all that twaddle about fate.
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For such views or criticisms, which are not based on thorough investigation, are nothing but ignorant twaddle.
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I should, however, feel inclined to forgive much of his extraordinary romancing for the admirable manner in which he settled that chattering twaddler, Bishop Burnet:
Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Some are good, some not so good and some are utter twaddle.
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Where's this self indulgent, meandering twaddle going, I hear you cry, if indeed you're still reading.
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Amid these twaddlers he presents the formidable front of a man with meaning, confident of his cause, and devoted to it with all his faculty.
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Such twaddle is outmoded and a sure formula for disappointment.
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For they say, "'Our life's but a span; '[37] we can only live once; why should you heed your father's threats? he's an old twaddler, he has one foot in the grave; we shall soon hoist him up and carry him off to burial.
Plutarch's Morals
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There's a Minister for Global Health out there somewhere and it seems that if you write beyond your allocation of tripe and twaddle, he or she will take retribution.
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There's nothing terrible about twaddlers - they're just beginning to test their independence, influence and control.
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He chose to leave wingers Derek Townsley and Kevin Twaddle on the bench in an attempt to strengthen the spine of the side, and it proved a fine piece of judgment.
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The site itself is fine, but the pompous paragraphs of twaddle regarding the most mediocre of indie rock bands can be a real hoot!
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Bingo Binks himself, who had given himself this trouble to secure the settlement of the bet; conjecturing that a man with a fashionable exterior, who could throw twelve yards of line at a cast with such precision, might consider the invitation of Winterblossom as that of an old twaddler, and care as little for the good graces of an affected blue-stocking and her côterie, whose conversation, in Sir
Saint Ronan's Well
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Mention experimental dance and you get an eyes-glazed-over look that says: ‘For god's sake, somebody set the fire alarm off so that I can escape from this pretentious twaddle.’
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Dixon, of course you find talk of war crimes to be "twaddle", after all, it was you that said that the Serbs did the right thing in massacring Muslims.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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What a load of old GuF and twaddle from the GuFster and twaddler in chief.
Archive 2008-01-06
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Before his letters came to light in 1815, Fronto had been idealized as the wise counsellor of a philosophic emperor; afterwards an exaggerated reaction dismissed him as a futile twaddler.
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Credit cards are issued to unverifiable business addresses, or posh students who claim to be Lord Twiddle of Twaddle earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.
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As for what you consider "twaddle", that's the opinion of a paying film fan, whether you like it or not, an opinion that many readers and those who make film do.
Filmstalker: Filmstalker EIFF 2009 Roundup: Episode 15: Running in Traffic
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The left are rife with corruption and their fare share of "twaddle".
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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The usual uninspired marketing twaddle is neither.
Back label watch: “handcrafted” | Dr Vino's wine blog
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She calls a story in Vogue on "new ways" to carry a handbag "twaddle" and goes on to beseech, "Isn't it time they all tried a little bit harder to be on our side ...?
Cathy Alter: In Defense of Women's Magazines
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Just in the past week, similar pieces of twaddle have crossed my desk.
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How daft is this thing going to get before even the wackiest of the wacky get migraines or something and for the love of Pete, just mercifully let all the twaddle go??
Tiger Woods And Barack Obama
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She then twaddles on a bit about getting him at the Gates of St Peters, sings her own demented versions of My Ding-A-Ling and Devil Woman and gets generally unpleasant.
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More twaddle from the nutcase side of the global warming debate: [G] lobal warming is caused by the widespread sin, immorality, and materialism of our current society.
Think Progress » CEI Scholar: Gore Thinks Climate Change is Caused by ‘Widespread Sin,’ a Sign of ‘the Antichrist’
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Sick of such self-indulgent twaddle, I found the urge to throw the book across the room was strong.
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And all the while she thus discoursed, Mrs. Gaunt's thoughtful eyes looked straight over the chatterbox's white cap, and explored vacancy; and by and by she broke the current of twaddle with the majestic air of a camelopard marching across a running gutter.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
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I've heard of it before; but when I was a kid it was called "twaddle".
"A woman in an airport bathroom who, I felt, had addressed my daughter Julia with an unforgivable tone of officiousness and disdain..."
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Once elected, we will ban lies, spin, sound bites, codswallop, and twaddle from all areas of government and the civil service.
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But while the Earl thus withdrew from public society, it was necessary, at least natural, that he should choose some one with whom to share the solitude of his own apartment; and Mowbray, superior in rank to the half-pay whisky-drinking Captain MacTurk; in dash to Winterblossom, who was broken down, and turned twaddler; and in tact and sense to Sir Bingo
Saint Ronan's Well
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She is a vivacious American actress who pulls off portraying anything from menaces to twaddlers, and whose versatility and range have earned her a solid reputation in a business that otherwise focuses on exteriors and beauty in female performers.
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Which nonny wrote this mind-nummy piece of twaddle?
In praise of … the graceful retreat | Editorial
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They were good friends beneath all the romantic twaddle, and they could always make each other laugh.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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However, that's just a hunch based on the fact that the reported sayings of ETs seem so often to be, well, new age twaddle while their doings seem, so often, to be creepy, meaningless, and malevolent.
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MacWheep was a "cratur," and much given to twaddle, but when it was his duty once to rebuke a fellow-minister for quarrelling with his people, he was delivered from himself, and spake with such grave wisdom as he has never shown before or since.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
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They were good friends beneath all the romantic twaddle, and they could always make each other laugh.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Surely a book's narrative should suffice to make its point, instead of relying on this self-indulgent twaddle?
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This is something that has been the cause of much vile verse in bad poets, of such gruesome twaddle as Senator Vest's dreadful outbark.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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The scene is commonplace enough; twaddle and tea, after tennis; "frivolling" -- it is their word; women too empty-headed and men too tired to do anything else.
Appearances Being Notes of Travel
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But technical proficiency does not equal good music, nor does it prevent that music from being boring, from being bloated, self-indulgent twaddle.
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She dismissed the findings as utter twaddle/a load of old twaddle.
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Then, one day coincidentally about five years ago, she switched it off halfway through and snarled: ‘What a load of twaddle.’
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Every teacher or twaddler who denies it or suppresses it, is an enemy of life.
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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Even hard core escapists are bound to be defeated by the generic tough-guy twaddle and the impersonal action sequences.
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So forgive me if I say phooey to the fashionable PR twaddle which claims that casinos can regenerate our urban landscape.
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If only I could get the newest back-lit, bluetooth, high resolution, 64 Mb turnip twaddler, I wouldn't ever need another gadget.
Archive 2005-05-01
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Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
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The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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No self-indulgent twaddle, no luvvy duvvy waffle, no tedious explaining what we're looking at, no extraneous family members self-aggrandising and hogging the airtime with totally irrelevant bullshit.
Update
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Jeff Twaddle, 54, a deckhand on the charter boat Gale Force, based out of the Rainbow Marina near the Port of Long Beach, died on a fishing trip Friday after he put the fish in his mouth as a joke for the 20 kids on-board while out on the water, authorities said.
Joke Turns Lethal; Angler Chokes On Bait
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I'm glad to hear that about O'Brien; as both a Catholic and a long-time fan of fantasy/horror/SF, I get twitchy when I hear objections along the lines of "escapist twaddle" or "it's not like reading the KJV!!!" to the genre.
You Go, Greydanus, or, O'Brien and the Dragon
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The exceptions are only Patriot batteries, ammunition and underwing ordnance. so "Derek Blades", you are talking twaddle.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This bill is gobbledygook; it is twaddle; it is rubbish.
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Is this more wanton, say, than to devote weeks to the consideration of the particular way in which your friend Mr. Nash may be most intensely a twaddler and a bore?
The Tragic Muse
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My second reaction was: What a load of self-indulgent twaddle!
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Thank you, Greg, for considering my twaddle interesting enough to broadcast.
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We are entering a new prudent paradigm, where cautious accounting and sober behaviour will replace the intoxicated entrepreneurialism of the 1990s. All the talk of the digital revolution turned out to be so much twaddle and hype.
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I've never heard such utter twaddle!
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The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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There she goes again with that faith, hope, charity, and creativity twaddle.
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For the cynic such talk may seem so much religious twaddle, but for those who really know God, these words are a source of immense comfort.
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The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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It is somehow alien to the Eastern mind to practice this totally European thing called chivalry, and in spite of all their twaddle about "Bushido" they do not understand that a prisoner-of-war who is helpless must not be kicked around, must not be outraged, and must be treated generously in consequence.
Some Experiences as a Medical Officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps
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Well, you might have told me that first instead of bombarding me with all that other twaddle.
LADY BE GOOD
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They were good friends beneath all the romantic twaddle, and they could always make each other laugh.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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So forgive me if I say phooey to the fashionable PR twaddle which claims that casinos can regenerate our urban landscape.
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It is not unusual, however, to find some person more simpleminded than others, who really believes what the performer says; but such people are indeed simple and foolish to put their faith in such twaddle.
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Of course it doesn't help that a lot of conceptual art is devoid of substance and that those cards are mostly self-serving inane twaddle, but the principle is there.
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Well, you might have told me that first instead of bombarding me with all that other twaddle.
LADY BE GOOD