baloney

noun

bə-ˈlō-nē How to pronounce baloney (audio)
variants also boloney
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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
  • Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of garbage
Noun
  • Ok, the seven regional trains were just travelling stupidity on my part.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The blatant stupidity of what is being done by our country‘s executive leadership is staggering.
    — Lisa P. Rimland, Hartford Courant, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of stupidity
Noun
  • American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.
    — Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Definition of blah
Noun
  • Sam apologized awkwardly, trying covertly to swipe beneath her chin, checking for drool and feeling like the world’s schlubiest schlub for struggling to tear her eyes from this stranger when the love of her life had dumped her an hour earlier.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Over time, drool evolved in the 19th century as a more specific term for saliva spilling or dripping from the mouth.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of drool
Noun
  • The site was first excavated beginning in 1995, and in 2018, scientists began collecting, analyzing and radiocarbon dating fossils unearthed from El Gigante rubbish piles.
    — GrrlScientist, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of rubbish
Noun
  • Feig amps up the irreverence, dialing up the foolishness to truly unserious levels.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
  • More recently, however, both the manosphere and the alt-right have adopted the term cuck as a more general synonym for weakness, desperation and foolishness.
    — Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 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
  • That said, there is one thing economists are unanimous about: The Biden/Harris explanation of inflation is hogwash.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Definition of hogwash
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