twad·dle
Ë?twä-dᵊl 
Synonyms
Noun
- applesauce [slang]
- balderdash
- baloney
- boloney
- beans
- bilge
- blah
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- bosh
- bull [slang]
- bunk
- bunkum
- buncombe
- claptrap
- codswallop [British]
- crapola [slang]
- crock
- drivel
- drool
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- flannel [British]
- flapdoodle
- folderol
- falderal
- folly
- foolishness
- fudge
- garbage
- guff
- hogwash
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers [slang]
- humbug
- humbuggery
- jazz
- malarkey
- malarky
- moonshine
- muck
- nerts [slang]
- nonsense
- nuts
- piffle
- poppycock
- punk
- rot
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- slush
- stupidity
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- trumpery
Examples of twaddle in a Sentence
Noun
We don't believe that twaddle anymore.
the novel's elaborate theory detailing a supposed 2,000-year-old conspiracy is mostly tiresome twaddle
Recent Examples on the Web
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
Perhaps News Nation is trying to assume the mantle of Fox News as a dispenser of right-wing twaddle, or (to be more charitable) of CNN as a sober neutral voice.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
On the other end are people like Yann LeCun, who reject such scenarios as sci-fi twaddle.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2024
Brett calls Hal to trade pretentious literary references, chit-chat about the business of books and other time-sucking twaddle.
—oregonlive, 16 May 2024
This is all abject twaddle.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
No, not the usual twaddle about manipulative crowd-pleasers like cats, dogs, ferrets or budgies, which are programmed to be cute, but stories like the recent one in the Journal about goats that are helping to fight fires in rural Australia by gobbling up potential tinder.
—Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
Before long, Limbaugh had attracted an audience of 20 million a day by spewing wildly racist, xenophobic and sexist bile and wildly untrue twaddle about everything from climate to tobacco to the number of murders committed by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
—Al Franken, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
Much of the research and the dissemination of this twaddle is funded by the Gates Foundation, which last year spent $642 million for its U.S. program, including Pathways and other initiatives that focus on eliminating white supremacy from math.
—Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 16 Sep. 2021
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Noun
The public is simply not buying it and is looking for an alternative.
Enough of the twaddle about how voting Democratic is voting to save democracy.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
Perhaps News Nation is trying to assume the mantle of Fox News as a dispenser of right-wing twaddle, or (to be more charitable) of CNN as a sober neutral voice.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
On the other end are people like Yann LeCun, who reject such scenarios as sci-fi twaddle.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2024
Brett calls Hal to trade pretentious literary references, chit-chat about the business of books and other time-sucking twaddle.
—oregonlive, 16 May 2024
This is all abject twaddle.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
No, not the usual twaddle about manipulative crowd-pleasers like cats, dogs, ferrets or budgies, which are programmed to be cute, but stories like the recent one in the Journal about goats that are helping to fight fires in rural Australia by gobbling up potential tinder.
—Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
Before long, Limbaugh had attracted an audience of 20 million a day by spewing wildly racist, xenophobic and sexist bile and wildly untrue twaddle about everything from climate to tobacco to the number of murders committed by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
—Al Franken, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
Much of the research and the dissemination of this twaddle is funded by the Gates Foundation, which last year spent $642 million for its U.S. program, including Pathways and other initiatives that focus on eliminating white supremacy from math.
—Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 16 Sep. 2021
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“Twaddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twaddle. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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