nonsense
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Synonyms for nonsense
Synonyms: Noun
applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, 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], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
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Examples of nonsense in a Sentence
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I don't know why you believe that nonsense about certain numbers being unlucky. She thinks that astrology is nonsense. Don't listen to him. He's talking nonsense. He was not in the mood to put up with any nonsense from his little brother. If they start pushing each other or some such nonsense, send them to their rooms. She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone. Many of the words in the poem are nonsense. I understood so few of the words they were using that the conversation sounded like nonsense to me.
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Should former Democratic Chicago mayor turned TV talking head Rahm Emanuel just drop the punditry nonsense and get into the presidential race himself? — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Should Rahm Emanuel run for president and save Democrats from Joe Biden and his bloody eye?," 11 Sep. 2019 All the draft nonsense about Gruden looking elsewhere is in the rear-view mirror. — Jerry Mcdonald, The Mercury News, "Five keys for Raiders in Monday night opener against Broncos," 9 Sep. 2019 Likewise, the numerous Pink Ladies and Burger Palace Boys need to look right for the juvenile nonsense that is so important in the Rydell high school universe. — Mike Giuliano, baltimoresun.com, "At Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, the 1950s become timeless in revival of 'Grease'," 21 June 2019