bilge
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Synonyms for bilge
Synonyms: Noun
applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
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Examples of bilge in a Sentence
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That magazine prints a lot of bilge about celebrities. tried to justify his bigoted tirade with a lot of stale and insincere bilgeRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Carman replaced a bilge pump and also removed two trim tabs from the rear of the boat and sealed holes with epoxy. — Dave Altimari, courant.com, "Judge hears final arguments in case of the sinking of Nathan Carman’s boat," 4 Sep. 2019 Sometime in its history, someone had blasted the starboard side of the wreck apart with dynamite, bending sturdy timbers outward like porcupine spines and blowing a heavy cast-iron piece of the ship's bilge pump 20 feet away. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "What will happen to the last slave ship in the US?," 2 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bilge.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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