Synonyms of taradiddle

taradiddle

noun

variants or tarradiddle

1

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

his tales of adventure are peppered with tongue-in-cheek taradiddles and obvious fabrications

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lie
• tale
• story
• fabrication
• ambiguity
• fairy tale
• fable
• fib
• falsehood
• distortion
• mendacity
• untruth
• prevarication
• exaggeration
• falsity
• deceit
• fiction
• whopper
• nonsense
• libel
• defamation
• bluff
• perjury
• half-truth
• obliquity
• slander
• misrepresentation
• pretence
• misconception
• myth
• misstatement
• fallacy
• equivocation
• deceitfulness
• falsification
• humbug
• duplicity
• pose
• canard
• misinformation
• dishonesty
• pretense
• jive
• fraudulence
• misreport

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• fact
• truthfulness
• truism
• honesty
• confirmation
• verification
• validation
• veracity
• verity
• authentication
• substantiation

2

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

regards literary deconstruction as so much tenure-track taradiddle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• jazz
• blah
• blatherskite
• silliness
• rubbish
• flapdoodle
• bunk
• boloney
• falderal
• balderdash
• punk
• garbage
• bunkum
• claptrap
• absurdity
• trumpery
• blither
• twaddle
• baloney
• hokum
• humbuggery
• folderol
• malarky
• poppycock
• rot
• buncombe
• nuts
• fudge
• piffle
• insanity
• hogwash
• guff
• fiddlesticks
• hokeypokey
• bilge
• stupidity
• crock
• blah-blah
• malarkey
• tommyrot
• foolishness
• fiddle
• hooey
• fiddle-faddle
• codswallop
• blather
• madness
• craziness
• tosh
• absurdness
• blarney
• bosh
• applesauce
• muck
• hoodoo
• humbug
• bull
• trash
• drivel
• crapola
• beans
• drool
• folly
• moonshine
• horsefeathers
• nerts
• senselessness
• flannel
• idiocy
• slush
• inaneness
• foolery
• tomfoolery
• kookiness
• rigamarole
• lunacy
• witlessness
• imbecility
• inanity
• fatuity
• shenanigan(s)
• rigmarole
• asininity
• monkey business
• hot air
• hocus-pocus
• greek
• hoity-toity
• monkeyshine(s)
• double-talk
• gas

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• common sense
• sense
• horse sense
• sensibleness
• judgment
• levelheadedness
• wisdom
• judgement
• reasonability
• discernment

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