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Another word for nonsense

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Noun

  1. Unintelligible or foolish talk

    See also:

    words

  2. Something that does not have or make sense

    See also:

    knowledge

  3. Foolish behavior

    See also:

    ability

  4. Something or things that are unimportant

    See also:

    surface

    important

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Another word for nonsense

Noun

  1. Matter that has no meaning

  2. Frivolous behavior

    See also:

    stupidity

    Antonyms:

  3. Pure fun

    See also:

    fun

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Sentence Examples

  • I don't want to hear any more of this nonsense about magic.

  • I thought that was TV nonsense until a few minutes later the phone rang and damned if he hadn't done just that!

  • She couldn't help wondering if Evelyn really understood that going to his home country would mean she'd hear this kind of nonsense all the time.

  • If I hear this nonsense again, I'll send you outside the walls to deal with this mess personally.

  • Then we started hearing all this nonsense about Byrne until it got us wondering if there might be something to it, so we did a little detecting ourselves.

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