英语词汇“malarkey”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Malarkey is ridiculous or meaningless talk. You might feel strongly that your friend's excuses for not coming to your birthday party are just a bunch of malarkey.

You can generally use the word malarkey to mean "nonsense" or "hogwash." If you feel like a classmate is using big, impressive words and speaking in a deliberately complicated way to say something relatively simple, you can dismiss it as malarkey. And one political party might be quick to call an opponent's platform pure malarkey. You can also spell it malarky — both versions are an American invention from the 1920s.

WORD FAMILY

malarkey

USAGE EXAMPLES

But he is interested in all this metaphysical malarkey.

The Guardian(Oct 22, 2016)

Late term abortions are extremely rare, and Trump’s insistence that a baby can be torn out of its mother moments before childbirth is pure malarkey.

The Guardian(Oct 20, 2016)

"People are amazing. I was so cynical before all this cancer malarkey, but it's really changed my outlook on so many things," she said.

BBC(Oct 19, 2016)

n empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

Syn|Hyper

idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind

talk, talking

an exchange of ideas via conversation

单词	malarkey
释义	malarkey (once / 110461 pages) n Malarkey is ridiculous or meaningless talk. You might feel strongly that your friend's excuses for not coming to your birthday party are just a bunch of malarkey. You can generally use the word malarkey to mean "nonsense" or "hogwash." If you feel like a classmate is using big, impressive words and speaking in a deliberately complicated way to say something relatively simple, you can dismiss it as malarkey. And one political party might be quick to call an opponent's platform pure malarkey. You can also spell it malarky — both versions are an American invention from the 1920s. WORD FAMILY malarkey USAGE EXAMPLES But he is interested in all this metaphysical malarkey. The Guardian(Oct 22, 2016) Late term abortions are extremely rare, and Trump’s insistence that a baby can be torn out of its mother moments before childbirth is pure malarkey. The Guardian(Oct 20, 2016) "People are amazing. I was so cynical before all this cancer malarkey, but it's really changed my outlook on so many things," she said. BBC(Oct 19, 2016) n empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk Syn\|Hyper idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind talk, talking an exchange of ideas via conversation
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