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also malarky
as in nonsense
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
the old lady declared that everything politicians say is pure malarkey
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Recent Examples of malarkey
That’s some malarkey.
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Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
And that’s no malarkey.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
Enough with the malarkey.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
The technology shown in the video is plausible, but basically everything else is a bunch of malarkey.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2017
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Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
And that’s no malarkey.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
Enough with the malarkey.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
The technology shown in the video is plausible, but basically everything else is a bunch of malarkey.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2017
See All Example Sentences for malarkey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for malarkey
Noun
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Describing the plot as utter nonsense would both be 100 percent correct and likely taken as a massive compliment for all involved.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Mar. 2025
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Putin has repeatedly dismissed as nonsense Western claims that Russia could one day attack a NATO member.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.—
Brandon Withrow,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Beausoleil makes that claim, and argues that stupidity and self-preservation is also a sound reason for the Manson murders.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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Brooks – an author of books on the human condition -- is careful to delineate stupidity from intelligence.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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