| 单词 | balderdash |
| 例句 | He made the inside of poor Billy’s skull echo with balderdash. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “What undiluted balderdash! If this boy were a wight you’d already be stewing in his soup kettle. Of course he’s Abraham Portman’s grandson. Just look at him!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Today, trumpery can refer to just about any sort of balderdash, but it used to refer specifically to religious or woo-woo ideas. Trump really does stand for B.S.: “Trumpery,” an old-fashioned word that’s proving useful today 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z THE BIBLE: “Theological hokum! Egregious babble! Insipid balderdash!” Style Invitational: Tinker with the recipe — slightly change the name of a food 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Compared to the rest of the heaving morass of concussed balderdash lobbed out over the years, Making The Band is a masterpiece. From Date My Mom to Plain Jane: the MTV shows we don't need rebooted 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Learn to be fascinated by balderdash, especially from ages 15 to 35. How to get your kids to 18, sane and not hating you 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z "Piffle, rubbish, balderdash" – If I sound like an idiot, people will think I'm harmless. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-06-02T17:00:01Z That approach will serve readers equally well as they rummage through the thicket of fact, fiction and balderdash that makes up Michael Largo’s “The Big, Bad Book of Beasts.” “The Big, Bad, Book of Beasts:” odd and wonderful animals 2013-06-05T20:56:48Z Anika’s been exhibiting increasingly bizarre behavior this season — keeping a secret Hakeem shrine, stalking Laura — and it is balderdash at best. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 10: She Fixed You? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Everyone is not only entitled to their opinion, it is considered the height of rudeness to suggest that their opinion is balderdash; the height of rudeness, but great TV too. If you want my opinion, what we need are experts, not windbags 2013-02-24T00:05:40Z Along the way, he offers insight into how words come into being and a look at origins of a scattering of words: inkling, deadline, apprenticeship, balderdash. Paperback Row 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z He calls human reason “cerebral yackety-yack,” writes off human conversation as “balderdash” and blames the yackety-yack and the balderdash for “the whole shebang of infamy and atrocities.” In This Novel, God Is Annoyed and in Love 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Either way, “22 Jump Street” is the good-natured, sloppily rendered pile of balderdash for that moment, a movie that’s immune to all criticism and not worth bothering to dislike. “22 Jump Street”: Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill go meta-gay 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z “I am upset on the behalf of young men in America. They cannot listen to this balderdash and this old-timey view of women, which is a caveman view.” E. Jean Carroll lawyer considers another suit over Trump’s CNN comments 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “They cannot listen to this balderdash and this old-timey view of women, which is a cave man view.” E. Jean Carroll may sue Trump a third time after ‘vile’ comments on CNN 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z “I believe the verdict is a bunch of balderdash,” Deters said. Trump-backed candidate for Kentucky governor downplays jury verdict against former president 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Or in his own words - spat out in a Yorkshire growl - "bunkum and balderdash". Obituary: Sir Bernard Ingham 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z But in public statements, including an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Tuesday, he has spouted a heap of balderdash about the migrant flights. Column: The saga of DeSantis' migrant flights gets uglier 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z In the moment, you might have listened to this balderdash and perhaps responded: “Well then, how would you like me to take this?” Advice | Ask Amy: Should we invite co-workers to our intimate wedding? 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Declaring himself a victim is not just hyperbole or balderdash. Perspective | Oh, how the powerful wail and whine 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Many experts in finance and digital security have been watching with dismay as consumers and policymakers bought in to promoters’ balderdash. Column: Crypto is melting down. Here's who's hurt 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Another massacre, another outpouring of political balderdash, flat-out lies about gun control and cynical offers of “thoughts and prayers” for the victims. Column: Uvalde demonstrates our cowardice about guns 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z But despite “I Want You Back’s” heaping helping of the usual rom-com balderdash, both Slate and Day provide enough underdog charisma to make us root for their characters, if not their wrongheaded quests. Review: Familiar rom-com 'I Want You Back' has its pleasures 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Contrary to Weiss’s televised balderdash, we know that masks work to stem transmission — even cloth masks are better than no masks. Column: These pundits and pols say they're 'done with COVID.' But COVID's not done with us 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z For Mr. Merrill of Harrison Street, the romanticization of remote work is balderdash. What Bosses Really Think About the Future of the Office 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Johnson called the story “complete balderdash” and “an inverted pyramid of piffle.” Boris Johnson confirms he has six children. This is a big story in Britain. 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s no secret that the pandemic has been a rich breeding ground for infectious balderdash of every description. Column: Should you believe the vaccine mandates will cause mass resignations? Probably not 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z What is melting away is the patience of climate scientists and other experts when confronted with action-delaying balderdash. Opinion | Mr. Will is wrong on the effects of climate change 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z I always thought that was balderdash,” Douglas said. He was injured during BLM protests last spring. Now he's suing the LAPD and his uncle on the force 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The creators could have used the word hooey or baloney or balderdash. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z So how can we evaluate a graph suggesting that, around 2001, television channels Fox News and CNN had roughly similar ideological orientations — could this be balderdash? Statistical dark arts endanger democracy — and life 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z In doing so, it deserves a place alongside George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” and Harry G. Frankfurt’s “On Bulls---.” It’s a brilliant dissertation on Trump’s patented brand of balderdash. Review | A deep dive into President Trump’s doublespeak and other rhetorical tricks 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The Trump administration's flamboyant display of overconfidence, lies, mixed messaging, buck-passing, goalpost-shifting, petulant blame games, incoherent policy reversals, conspiracy theories and anti-scientific balderdash has, in a certain sense, been wondrous to behold. Donald Trump's cosplay fascism, neoliberal capitalism and the pandemic: How did we get here? 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z The committee’s reasoning that it lacked enough scientific evidence to declare an emergency last week was “balderdash,” he added. W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency as Wuhan Coronavirus Spreads 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Let’s all put the kibosh on ageist content and end all this poppycock and balderdash about older Americans. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Who determines what is a good vs. bad snowstorm? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z But that is an unethical scare tactic, and consumers should consider it balderdash. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Nothing turns Trump on like getting people to buy balderdash. Opinion | What does Trump see in Putin anyway? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright decried the story as "balderdash", while British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said there was "not a single shred of evidence" to support it. The night the US bombed a Chinese embassy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z One wants to engage with this argument charitably but — no, this is weapons-grade balderdash. Opinion | Some things should never be resurrected. Court-packing is one of them. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The amazing apogee of Lee’s art was probably the reams of fanciful balderdash he wrote as a complement to Ditko’s cosmic acid-scapes in their classic collaboration on the original Dr. Strange comics in the 1960s. The larger-than-life huckster dialogue of Stan Lee 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z To which I respond with a working-class stainless steel reply: balderdash. Republicans from Reagan to Trump: Replacing courage with cowardice 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Even by President Trump’s standards, this Memorial Day weekend was memorable for the sheer volume of balderdash, bunk, poppycock and patent nonsense flowing from the White House. Opinion | Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The same year, however, Lewis Strauss, chairman of America’s Atomic Energy Commission, made a balderdash prediction that nuclear power would soon become “too cheap to meter”. The future of solar energy 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s bad enough that the president believes this balderdash. Opinion | A vicious vortex of irrationality is sucking in the Republican Party 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Arguments against Persky's removal on the basis that it will affect the behavior of all judges are simply balderdash. Activists Try to Recall Judge in Stanford Sex Attack Case. Some Say They’ve Gone Too Far. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Politicians use business balderdash to avoid grappling with important issues. From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z “It’s balderdash,” says Stuart Phillips, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and an expert in muscle physiology. Tom Brady’s ‘The TB12 Method’ Is Hefty but Short on Science 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, so much else that has been said over the past few days is — I will use a family-oriented term — balderdash. Opinion | The destruction of political norms started decades ago. Here’s how it happened. 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z However, he called the court decision “balderdash” in an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. North Texas judge reprimanded for having sex with employee 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z That doesn’t speak well of Big 12 officials who put on the farce, one rivaling our presidential election for insincerity and balderdash. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Did Pence find it balderdash to question Trump’s assertion that “you would have riots” and “bad things would happen” if Trump were denied the GOP nomination? How Trump winks at political violence 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z I like to think that my countrymen and countrywomen are not so naive that they bought a word of any of this balderdash. Melania, Bill and Kids Belonged Off-Stage 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z “They published these as Philistine burials or tombs or graves, but most of them are poppycock or balderdash,” he said. Story of Philistines Could Be Reshaped by Ancient Cemetery 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z And Wheeler said suggestions that he pressured her were "balderdash." FCC votes to make low-income Americans eligible for subsidy for high-speed Internet service 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “It’s not right, and I would submit that it’s balderdash.” Md. House passes key bills as critical ‘crossover day’ nears 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z But back to Cruz and the suggestion now being made in the darker corners of the Internet that he's somehow a closet anti-Semite; balderdash. Cruz-ified 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Jonathan’s party called the suggestions “absolute balderdash” and demanded evidence. Challenger takes early lead in returns from Nigerian vote 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z All of the above were moving moments in a sea of impersonal, commercialized, insolent balderdash. The 2015 Oscars: Anything That Could Go Wrong, Did Go Wrong 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z But that is just an article or news report in a sea of endless television spots and direct mail pieces peddling balderdash. #AskTIME Subscriber Q and A: Michael Scherer 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The home affairs correspondent had telephoned the home secretary, Michael Howard, who told him it was balderdash. Asil Nadir, Polly Peck and the headless chickens 2012-08-26T17:02:13Z The papers accused you of cruelty; they affirmed that there was no cause for the measures of severity you adopted; and they argued—" "Don't bore me with all that balderdash. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z It's your rough diamond Curran's fault, with his romantic balderdash about his country. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z No critic, however, was as severe as The Athenæum, which had called Lavengro “balderdash” and referred to The Romany Rye as the “literary dough” of an author “whose dullest gypsy preparation we have now read.” The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The Liegeois, who know how to brew Wine as well as Beer, buy up a great Quantity of it, which they balderdash after their Manner, and sell for Burgundy. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z "The whole thing is balderdash," said the Major with solemnity. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This type of robust intellect has, during the last ten decades, affirmed that hypnotism, aviation in machines heavier than air, telepathy, wireless telegraphy, and other non-proved phenomena, are superstitious and unscientific balderdash. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Finally he called me in, closed the door, took my hand and talked balderdash for a quarter of an hour or more. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z And Mrs. Campbell smiled grimly, and wondered "if he really thought she was silly enough to believe he believed in any such balderdash." A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z In the one entitled "Mrs. Besant's Return of the Christ" is to be found some of the most amazing balderdash—given out as serious teaching!—it has ever been my lot to encounter. H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z Forgive all this egotistical balderdash; perhaps I think I am going to die, and want to leave my memoirs in a friend's hands. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z I listened to some old wife's balderdash, and thought it true. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z It does not appear that this sublime balderdash made much progress until the time of Plato. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z A feeling of regard for the English language induces us, however, to refrain from giving publicity to Mr Mayne Reid’s balderdash, which we dare say may be read in another place.” Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z Guy is convinced this is balderdash – if you’re willing to change. Be Enchanting! Guy Kawasaki Tells How To Win Like Apple 2011-03-07T21:36:52Z I have mislaid—perhaps some one has carried off—my 'Rebel Songs,' for I heard a threat of the kind in connection with some autograph balderdash. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z As to any occasion for them at home in their own land, it's downright balderdash to talk of it! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z What a deal of balderdash people talk about Italian liberty, and the cause of constitutional freedom! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z But the balderdash and babble Of our too facetious hero, Tho' attractive to the rabble, Send our spirits down to zero. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z The reader now sees what estimate to put upon all the other balderdash of the article. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z ‘The Flame beyond the Dome’ it is called—the queerest farrago of balderdash and metaphysics imaginable. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z After all, I suppose it is downright balderdash to say that a man is not adapted for this, or suited to that. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z It makes me actually sick to hear you, an Irishman born and bred, repeating all that English balderdash about "a cheap and indisputable title." and so forth. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Rudd, who faces a general election later this year, had rejected the miners' claims that they would be driven out of Australia as "balderdash" and "bunkum". Xstrata halts mining work in protest at Australian supertax 2010-06-03T12:08:00Z But if you find "piffle" or even "balderdash" more authentic, then be my guest. Mr Punch 2010-03-12T18:20:00Z They contained declarations of love of every description, ranging from the sentimental balderdash of young Neuhaus to the cynical quips of old Stolt. The Undying Past Let me tell you, too, that there is a great deal of balderdash talked in the world about experience,—that with experience you 'll do this, that, and t' other better. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z As to that printed paper, with its twenty-seven queries, it is positive balderdash from beginning to end. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z What but insult is the following balderdash offered to a great people as a remedy for physical suffering—cruelty—oppression—want? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 What a stupid world it is when the people who like each other best cannot get together because of proprieties, and marriages, and such balderdash as we call love. Ayala's Angel Did he think I was the woman to be deceived by any such balderdash as that? Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth You keep preaching to me about economy and making "both ends meet," and all that kind of balderdash; and if you only saw the way we 're living, you 'd be surprised at our cheapness. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Do you mean," said he, in a voice guttural with passion, "do you mean to impose upon a man of my stamp with such stupid balderdash as that? Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience She was his real wife in the sight of God, she declared, as the stock blasphemous balderdash runs, whatever the other woman was in name, and so forth. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt I 'd just say,4 Look here, young gent, is this balderdash here your hand? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Don't talk balderdash; my head is weak enough already. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Of course be batters up the pastors of the people; but he might as well leave that alone; the priests are too cunning for all that balderdash nowadays. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Confound your balderdash!" cried Fagan, passionately; "you've put me out in the tot—seventeen and twelve, twenty-nine—two thousand nine hundred pounds, with the accruing interest. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience It's a flam and a humbug,—a fiction like the old story about an Englishman's house being his castle, or that balderdash, 'No man need criminate himself.' Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day I wish, instead of all this social science humbug and art-union balderdash, they would hearken to the voice of a plain man, saying, Are you not members of one family,—the individuals of one household? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance "What infernal balderdash are you at with Solomon and Samson, there?" shouted out Grog Davis, who had just been looking after the horse-box in the bow. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day You write to them about your son or your nephew, and they answer you with some tawdry balderdash about their principles, as if any one of us ever believed they were troubled with principles! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z "Walk a little quicker, and you may talk as much balderdash as you please," said the other, buttoning up his coat, and resolving not to pay the slightest attention to his companion's agreeability. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life "No balderdash! no nonsense! but go to your work, like a decent servant." The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Why, the poet who refuses To emblazon love's delights Gets the mitten from the Muses,— Then what balderdash he writes! Second Book of Verse There is a great deal of balderdash written and talked upon this subject, which ought to have an end; it does not help farming, it does not help the world,—simply because it is untrue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 Those who have ever tried to read that very peculiar and, to many, very significant document know what an apparent jumble of contradictions and metaphysical balderdash it appears to be. The "Genius" All the balderdash that ever came into your head scattered over the world to bring shame on us! The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He said the advertisement was "a false, wicked, malicious, scandalous, and seditious libel;" "full of ribaldry, Billingsgate, scurrility, balderdash, and impudence;" "wicked is a term too high for this advertisement;" "its impudence disarmed its wickedness." The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Every reader will agree with Nash, I suppose, in condemning this as balderdash. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Of course all this, the staple of their every-day discussions, was strange enough to my ears; and I listened in a sort of silent wonderment that men could talk such balderdash. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Such unscientific balderdash,” added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, “would have estranged Damon and Pythias.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Feargus O’Connor, a well-known firebrand, seconded it in a violent speech, in which occurred the following balderdash. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The climax of this is of course reached in the ineffable balderdash which usually does duty for the libretto of an opera, but it is quite as noticeable in the ordinary songs of the drawing-room. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 But he understood how his son should be what he was, and he loved him so much that he almost honored him for what he called his balderdash about industrial slavery. The Quality of Mercy Egan, in the course of an eloquent address, begged the jury not to be carried away by the "dark oblivion of a brow."—"What do you mean by using such balderdash?" said a friend. Law and Laughter But Master," said I, somewhat captivated by the balderdash, "there is, after all, colour in words. The Belovéd Vagabond The hypocrisy which says, "My dear Mrs. So-and-so, I'm perfectly delighted to see you; do sit right down on this bent pin!" is not good nature; it is pure balderdash. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Balderdash.—What is the meaning and the etymology of "balderdash?" Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. His speeches on the route were a volcanic outbreak of vulgarity, conceit, bombast, scurrility, ignorance, insolence, brutality, and balderdash. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 "It may be balderdash," replied Egan, "but depend upon it, it will do very well for that jury." Law and Laughter All that balderdash about the Wheel and the River of Fire. It Could Be Anything "You're talking pure balderdash!" said Macdonald, leaning forward to knock the ashes from his pipe on the bars of the grate. A Dominie in Doubt "Don't be taken in by such balderdash, Madame," said the exasperated doctor. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 “International courtesies are all very well in their way, but I don’t like being stopped for a mere exchange of bunting and that sort of balderdash, Nesbitt.” Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant The reader will resent being troubled by this kind of balderdash, but Messrs. Clemenceau, Lloyd-George and Wilson may have resented it even more. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Had March Marston talked the most unutterable balderdash, widow Marston would have listened with unwearied delight as long, we believe, as her eyes and ears could do their duty. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains The Bolsheviki of the present not only poll-parrot the balderdash of the French demagogues of 1789; they also mouth what was gospel to every bête blonde in the Teutonic forest of the fifth century. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind “I’ll shove you into the sea if you go on talking balderdash,” said Bob. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea Hazlet, ashamed and bewildered, confused his present position with old reminiscences, and muttered some balderdash about Carlyle “not being sound.” Julian Home "A half, left semi-definite, Is worthy of its score:" This looked very much like balderdash, And neither less nor more. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Well, then, somebody posts back his Election Address with 'This is pitiful balderdash and most ungrammatical' written plainly at the bottom of it. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 The prophecy of Madame Zanidov—"that incredible balderdash!"—even woke her in the night. Sacrifice What balderdash has been spoken and written about poor Jack everlastingly misconducting himself! The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century The man who formulated the materialist conception of history could not by any possibility utter such balderdash. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles It is strange that the House should have listened to such balderdash, not only with patience, but even with apparent submission. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Now would the lounger, as he strolled along Pall-Mall, say, "No need to hurry." "light airs of wind from the east" means a member for Galway and some balderdash about the Greeks. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Any trash will do for the people; that is the modern notion; vile roulades in music, tawdry crudities in painting, cheap balderdash in print—all that will do for the people. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida The governor used to talk a lot o’ balderdash about our bein’ brought up; but I knows better. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands “I love him for his good temper; but I owe him a grudge for making mischief between me and Maria; besides, he talks balderdash before the ladies and annoys them very much.” Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer The author of this balderdash was one C. P. T. Ware, "a poor little hack playwright, who wrote anything for anybody." The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert I was going to quote some of that balderdash which reminds one of 'The Rivals,' where Acres says, "If you had called me a poltroon, Sir Lucas!" Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General How I did enjoy Brown’s balderdash; the witty sallies of Smith; Robinson’s repartees; Jones’ jocosities! She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. As for Sarah’s speech in reply, it was the drivellingest balderdash you ever heard. Tom, Dick and Harry By soul, they mean a puffball of hifalutin ideas, of nonsense about the occult and psychic, and all that balderdash. Patty Blossom Conn Maxwell knows better than this balderdash he's been spouting to you. The Cosmic Computer What a check on the expansive balderdash of the 'gent' at his dessert to know and feel that 'Adam Bede' was behind him! Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General "Then why all this balderdash about shock, rejection, and so on?" Highways in Hiding O, don't be cross, good Aunt Patty!" he said, noticing her dark looks; "don't mind my balderdash. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems No critic, however, was as severe as The Athenæum, which had called Lavengro 'balderdash' and referred to The Romany Rye as the 'literary dough' of an author 'whose dullest gypsy preparation we have now read.' George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Was he beginning to believe this balderdash himself? The Cosmic Computer He had shown her a great deal while he sat there, especially what balderdash he thought it—the whole idea of women's being equal to men. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) He didn't know this balderdash of his was going straight to the Times as fast as he spouted it; he thought I was taking it down in shorthand. Four-Day Planet This innocent rhetoric, from the realm of religious-ethical balderdash, appears a good deal less innocent when one reflects upon the tendency that it conceals beneath sublime words: the tendency to destroy life. The Antichrist Yes, clear your mind of all this balderdash! Love's Comedy There are pages in Alroy that read as if they were written for a wager, to see how much balderdash the public will endure. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters If the balderdash and cheap erudition of Bulwer and Disraeli are covered with inextinguishable mirth, no one is offended by the pleasant imitations of Lever, James, and Fenimore Cooper. Studies in Early Victorian Literature The sort of balderdash which Mr. --- serves up to us for plays. Masques & Phases There has been much balderdash in talk about unselfish motives as the origin of warfare. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe I also know that Congreve gave up writing because Mrs. Centlivre's balderdash drove his comedies off. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals Upon the laying of matters fairly together, what a king have these balderdash scribblers given us, under the resemblance of Henry the Third! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 And, though but a small part of the sixty works can be called good, the inferior work is not discreditable: it is free from affectation, extravagance, nastiness, or balderdash. Studies in Early Victorian Literature There was a precentor of fools, who was shaved in public, during which he entertained the populace with all the balderdash his genius could invent. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 As far as regards German affairs, the phrase is a piece of unmitigated balderdash, and has created immense merriment in the circles of those here who know. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? It was betwixt a hairdresser's and a tripeseller's, and had an outdoor display of idiotic prints, romantic balderdash mixed with filthy caricatures fit for a barrack-room. His Masterpiece What, will he come with his balderdash, after the Mufti's eloquent oration? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 If another Dickens were to break out to-morrow with the riotous tomfoolery of Pickwick at the trial, or of Weller and Stiggins, a thousand lucid criticisms would denounce it as vulgar balderdash. Studies in Early Victorian Literature But to the obdurate mind of Wigfall this Union talk was "the merest balderdash." Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Never had there been so riotous a jargon of distorted affectation and ponderous balderdash. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 It is balderdash to talk of the Spaniards as being too proud to treat with a person whom they believed to be nothing better than a pirate. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon Is it necessary to say how this clear-headed and conscientious girl acted upon reading this transparent balderdash? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Some haunting fear was set at the back of his laughing eyes—the expression of an animal instinct for self-preservation which discounted the balderdash about the soaring yet disciplined soul. Jaffery One woman, one man, and all the rest of the balderdash. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill The word I had on my tongue was—balderdash. Copper Streak Trail What balderdash to write about a man ablaze with reasoning energy and genius of the highest order! Drake, Nelson and Napoleon "Do you mean to tell me, sir, that that balderdash is the real meaning of the thing?" John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman Pitiful temporary babble and balderdash, in comparison to what the Silences can say to one. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. No sooner does he attempt the comic vein than his whole style collapses into mere balderdash. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Antonyms: preponderance, deficit, deficiency. balcony, n. gallery, terrace. bald, a. hairless, polled; tonsured; unadorned, literal, undisguised, unvarnished, unqualified; uncorroborated, unsupported, glaring, mere. balderdash, n. flummery, nonsense, jargon, fustian, moonshine, twaddle, fudge. baldness, n. alopecia. Putnam's Word Book He did not sit in a study and throw off his saga of balderdash, but he lived a life, and it is by his authenticity, and not by his poses, that he has survived. Emerson and Other Essays "I love him for his good temper; but I owe him a grudge for making mischief between me and Maria; besides, he talks balderdash before the ladies, and annoys them very much." Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer They professed to believe that the balderdash in which the message abounded would make converts for their side; they even printed thirty thousand copies of the document for circulation. The Reign of Andrew Jackson In fact she is much superior to this extravagance, this vagueness, this presumptuous balderdash. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 He hated mystical balderdash, clumsy barbarity, and stupid hypocrisy. One Hundred Best Books Mr. J. knows it not, and no single member of the imbecile, anserous, asinine, cow-hocked, spavin-brained, venomous, hugger-mugger purveyors of puddling balderdash who follow him has the least conception of my glorious system. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 Just as an able-minded man will sit down for hours and fiddle over the puzzle column in a Sunday balderdash. Murder in Any Degree Think of the future orator, lawyer, and senator writing, even at the age of twenty, such balderdash as this! The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style All such balderdash is bad for San Francisco. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts The balderdash of philosophers and scholars, the logomachy of the Middle Ages, thenceforth held absolute sway. Against the Grain To these jelly-faced purveyors of balderdash I only say this:—How, if His Serene Highness be a myth, could I receive from him the letter I published last week? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 If the people in England could only realise the quarrelsome, deceitful, underhanded, egotistic any tyrannical character of the Germans, there would not be so much balderdash about a friendly understanding, etc., between England and Germany. Peace Theories and the Balkan War They talked Socialism and revolution in the trenches to comrades who saw no use to alter the good old ways of England and "could find no manner of use" for political balderdash. The Soul of the War Where he got the stuff I can't imagine, for the most grousing Tommy, with his leave stopped, never put together such balderdash. Mr. Standfast As for a man of such associations and financial interests being unfit fairly to administer public affairs, what balderdash! The Conflict As you are perfectly aware, all that I vented was just a deal of skimble-scamble stuff, a verbal syllabub of balderdash. The Certain Hour "You can jeer at that poor lady's poetry, yet take pleasure in such balderdash as Hudibras!" London Pride Or When the World Was Younger I'm surprised," pursued the president, "that a man of your scientific standing should stultify himself by taking seriously such balderdash as this. The Second Deluge What do you mean by all that balderdash you've been talking? Run to Earth A Novel The first two lines are priggish, and the last three mere poetic balderdash. The Man Shakespeare Whereupon she talks further balderdash, and the dear old darling smiles a triumphant smile! The Christian A Story I know that I shall be stoned, that every boy has his balderdash ready against that to which the reflection of years and sleepless nights has given birth. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth The frontispiece portrait of the wan, meager, despondent saint promised freedom from romantic balderdash. We Can't Have Everything It is all folly and balderdash, this talk of his love for me making him leave me. A Terrible Secret Let us see if there is any foundation for this sentimental balderdash. The Man Shakespeare The services in the main are simple, free from all boisterous balderdash, and if not of such a character as would suit everybody, are evidently well liked by those participating in them. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston It is a libel on the women of the country, to put such balderdash into the mouth of one who may be supposed to have been finished at a fifth-rate boarding-school. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 Mr. Steadman began, without replying to the editor's friendly greeting: "Who writes this balderdash from our district," he asked harshly. Purple Springs I honestly appreciate the fact you have come to me, not as the husband of that fiction in which kitchen-maids delight, breathing fire and speaking balderdash, but as one sensible man to another. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations That his ordinary language on the platform is balderdash and blasphemy is not true. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Your teachings are balderdash and rubbish; the noblest of your precepts to us he parodies, winning for himself applause and approval, and for us humiliation. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Police and all that; names an' addresses and all that balderdash. Tales of Chinatown All this talk about the sweetness of crushed blossoms, throwing their fragrance from the wounded part, and the riven sandal-tree, and the blessed uses of adversity, is outrageous balderdash, according to my doctrine. At Last Of course, any idea of the kind was purely and simply balderdash. The Beetle He, too, as well as other conjurers, has thrown dust in our eyes and has made the platform reel beneath the superincumbent weight of his balderdash and blasphemy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers The little tiddledywinks business that I've got to learn—all the value there is in the mass of balderdash about manners and dress—I can learn it in a few lessons. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel From this balderdash I still conclude that she will do more for you than her sister.— The Forfeiture This perverse balderdash was getting on the nerves of the deputation. South Wind There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash. In the Year of Jubilee "Do you imagine that any one word take the trouble to read your balderdash?" Joseph II. and His Court Don't let me hear all that balderdash about the founding of new empires. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn With what heart persist in playing venerable antics that led to nothing, and mumbling solemn balderdash that remained without effect? The Golden Bough It will use your patriotic blatherskite and balderdash to get parliamentary powers over you as cynically as it would bait a mousetrap with toasted cheese. John Bull's Other Island Eve's curse on Cain, in Byron's fine drama, is mere balderdash to what followed on Dixon's part. Such Is Life They drank, sang, and talked balderdash and indecencies in a way to bring a look of disgust upon the cheeks of the rough boatmen. The Golden Dog How can you help being the mothers, daughters, &c. of Snobs, so long as this balderdash is set before you? The Book of Snobs But all this is ugly balderdash, which expresses not a single character nor feature. The Sorrows of Young Werther Look here— and here—cut out that balderdash—cut this—and this— oh,—" throwing the pencil down,—"you'd have to cut it all out. T. Tembarom That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime. Travels through France and Italy "Do you mean to tell me that you believe, for one moment, in this balderdash?" demanded Ralph Mainwaring, at the same time rising and striding about the room in his wrath. That Mainwaring Affair He is poor stuff, full of Yankee bounce; it is sickening to live in an age when such balderdash can be gravely admired whether as poetry or prophecy.” The Way of All Flesh "Monsieur," she said, bending to the ear of her notary, "you called that stipulation balderdash; it seems to me that nothing could have been more clear." The Marriage Contract Having first dosed me with blarney, he proceeded to deluge the legislature with balderdash. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 This cynical view of religious emotionalism, and with it of the whole stock of ecclesiastical balderdash, is probably responsible, at least in part, for the reluctance of women to enter upon the sacerdotal career. In Defense of Women Solonet turned away and sat down on the ottoman, saying, in a low voice, to Madame Evangelista:— "You will now hear what we call in the profession 'balderdash.'" The Marriage Contract |
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