Example sentences for: balderdash

How can you use “balderdash” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Balderdash!"

  • ' Adding to the pile of verbal garbage is balderdash, which reaches back to the late 16th century and originally meant a `hodgepodge of liquors, such as wine mixed with beer,' perfect for washing down a mishmash of pretentious and frivolous blather.

  • Bosh looks as typically British as balderdash, yet it actually descends from the Turkish adjective bos `empty, useless.

  • Interdicted are burly “too often associated with large black men” (large, yes; black, no), fried chicken “often used to refer to the cuisine of black people” (something that customers of Colonel Sanders might well dispute), gyp “because it insults gypsies” (only for those who are aware of the etymological nuances of the language), go Dutch insults “citizens of the Netherlands” (what utter balderdash !), Ugh!

  • Balderdash, said the art community.


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