Example sentences for: gobbledygook

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

  • Puffy, bureaucratic verbiage if often called gobbledygook, a word credited to Texas congressman Maury Maverick, who compared the tortuous (and torturous) prose of Washington bureaucrats to the senseless gobbling of turkeys.

  • , and I may as well use the same software for plain English articles and professional gobbledygook.

  • Health Care Terms contains a good deal besides initialisms, but I focus on those because they are probably most representative of the jargon we are faced with whenever we encounter the Bureaucracy: as if the compounding of incomprehensible, undescriptive jargon were not enough, those who concoct that obfuscating gobbledygook are not content till they have turned it into an abbreviation or an acronym.

  • In fact, Americans seem to possess a tolerance and perhaps even a relish for gobbledygook.

  • We can dismiss them no more than we can dismiss our euphemisms, jargons, and gobbledygook without frustrating our sensibility.


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