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also falderal
as in nuts
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
wanted a dignified, simple wedding and not the folderol that the wedding planner was trying to foist on them
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Recent Examples of folderol
The worst instance of intersectional folderol is Jeffrey Wright’s subplot exploiting the racially confused legacy of both James Baldwin and Anatole Broyard.
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Nov. 2021
Yet most Americans are barely aware of the political folderol that has been going on for years.
—Delthia Ricks, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2010
But this is a mess of its own making, a needless folderol that accomplished nothing beyond making the group seem messy and divided.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
For instance, designer David Zinn has built the show a lovely Buckingham Palace, repeating the gilt folderol of the Longacre Theatre’s proscenium on the columns and gates that enclose the stage.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Nov. 2021
Yet most Americans are barely aware of the political folderol that has been going on for years.
—Delthia Ricks, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2010
But this is a mess of its own making, a needless folderol that accomplished nothing beyond making the group seem messy and divided.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
For instance, designer David Zinn has built the show a lovely Buckingham Palace, repeating the gilt folderol of the Longacre Theatre’s proscenium on the columns and gates that enclose the stage.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folderol
Noun
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In Dolton, residents can’t even be sure their garbage will be collected.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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During another sale, an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle was placed in a garbage bag and sold in the middle of the afternoon in the Bronx.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This season, the valley bottom is still soggy with slush and muck—difficult conditions to work in for forester and fourth-generation Idaho local Chad Ramsay.—
Katie Bradish,
Outside Online,
15 Jan. 2025
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Inside mountains like these are crushed up bits of black-shale formations, which form from the organic muck accumulated at the bottom of seas, heated and compressed over time.—
Justin Nobel,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Kennedy has elevated threats to the livelihoods of scientists who have resisted his brand of balderdash from the implicit to the explicit.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Nov. 2024
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While schools do exist in rough tiers of selectivity, size, excellence, prestige and so forth, the idea of precise rankings is balderdash.—
David M. Perry,
CNN,
14 Sep. 2022
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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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Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Many Red Sox fans have had it up to here with that building-for-the-future claptrap, so much so that expectations were scary low coming into the 2024 season.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
31 July 2024
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The public is simply not buying it and is looking for an alternative. Enough of the twaddle about how voting Democratic is voting to save democracy.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Jan. 2024
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Perhaps News Nation is trying to assume the mantle of Fox News as a dispenser of right-wing twaddle, or (to be more charitable) of CNN as a sober neutral voice.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2023
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Trust us, Globes producers: This kind of blather is far more likely to make viewers turn the channel than watching pretty people walk past other pretty people for a few seconds.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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The Sun Sentinel’s hysterical condemnation of Trump is so much partisan blather.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
18 May 2024
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“Folderol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folderol. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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