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单词 twaddle
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twaddle
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WORD FAMILY
twaddle: twaddled, twaddler, twaddles, twaddling+/twaddler: twaddlers
USAGE EXAMPLES
Whether the role model remark adds up to more than two days of Twitter twaddle for Ms. Ayotte is a matter of mystery.
New York Times(Oct 04, 2016)
Though I think the social personality is not always fraudulent, James called it “the graciousness of mere twaddle.”
Los Angeles Times(Jul 28, 2016)
She has spoken of her aversion to stages and of her impatience with what Henry James, her lifelong inspirator, called “the twaddle of mere graciousness.”
New York Times(Jun 23, 2016)
1n pretentious or silly talk or writing
Syn|Hyper
baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh
bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
a message that seems to convey no meaning
2v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle
babble, blather, blether, blither, smatter
to talk foolishly
mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
express in speech
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