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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malarkey
Noun
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By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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That ain't the show, the show is the nonsense that's happening in between John Wick.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 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
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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
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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
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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
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“Malarkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malarkey. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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