baloney

noun

bə-ˈlō-nē How to pronounce baloney (audio)
variants also boloney
Definition of baloneynext
as in garbage
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense just follow my orders, and stop the baloney

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baloney
  1. garbage
  2. stupidity
  3. blah
  4. drool
  5. rubbish
  6. foolishness
  7. nuts
  8. hogwash
Noun
  • The best response is to stand together and rally around New Orleans, showing all such extremists that their vision of the world is garbage.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Clean Cult All Purpose Cleaner Lemon Verbena (Set of 3) $15 Amazon Papaya Reusable Paper Towels Bundle (Set of 6) $54 $46 Amazon Get a combination recycling bin–trash can Keep recycling and garbage separate without the pain of multiple bins with a combination recycling bin–trash can.
    Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of garbage
Noun
  • Watch stupidity and laziness (my much better working title for The End of Work was The End of Laziness) rapidly disappear as technological advance erases so much of what people used to do for a living in favor of living for work.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Their books’ fantasies of martyrdom and religious metaphysics are a feint so as not to recognize the need for socialism at home and abroad, and to obscure American stupidity.
    Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
Definition of stupidity
Noun
  • The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.
    Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of blah
Noun
  • Nate Burleson to haters of NFL's promo clip featuring Taylor Swift: 'Wipe the drool off your tank top' Burleson didn't hold back while addressing the critics who decried seeing Swift in an NFL hype video.
    Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of drool
Noun
  • In the city center and suburbs of Maputo, mountains of rubbish were piling up.
    Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Not this current rubbish that has been served up and charged at Michelin star rates.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of rubbish
Noun
  • Fonseca got tough and the line between bravery and foolishness, at times, became imperceptible.
    James Horncastle, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The problem is not the companies but the system, whose foolishness is very clear to those, like me, who have spent decades abroad.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of foolishness
Noun
  • The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of nuts
Noun
  • The Reynolds administration has been something of a one-stop shop for this kind hogwash that’s blind to the consequences of loosening child labor laws.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • And any mention of the actor and composer as porcines of interest would be pure hogwash.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
Definition of hogwash
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