| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Pretentious, pompous speech or writing: bombast, fustian, grandiloquence, magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity. See PLAIN, STYLE, WORDS. 2. Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. Informal : tommyrot. Slang : applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull1, bunk2, crap, hooey, malarkey. See KNOWLEDGE.
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