Example sentences for: gobbledegook

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

  • To call a brown-skinned person a gook may be reinforced by words in his own language, Chinese Mee Gook for “beautiful country,” or Korean Myguk (My = “America” + guk = “country”), but the word is extraordinarily derogatory, reinforced by, if not derived from the common English slang gobbledegook (the brown man's language) and gook (his food).

  • Papierdeutsch, Lit. paper German: officialese or gobbledegook

  • This book included, with wonderful drawings, such wildlife as The Untouchable Incumbent, The Viable Alternative, The Running Gamut, The Qualm, The Budgetary Shortfall , and The Gobbledegook . I cannot imagine how they could have missed Swift's Utter Gall, Preemptive Strike , and Sheer Audacity . Perhaps those are so common in Washington as to be overlooked.


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