Definition of gobbledygook
:wordy and generally unintelligible jargon
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The report is just a bunch of gobbledygook.
cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be
Recent Examples of gobbledygook from the Web
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One by one, White's dummy files are encrypted, rendering them into inaccessible, alphanumeric gobbledygook.
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One by one, White's dummy files are encrypted, rendering them into inaccessible, alphanumeric gobbledygook.
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One by one, White's dummy files are encrypted, rendering them into inaccessible, alphanumeric gobbledygook.
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One by one, White's dummy files are encrypted, rendering them into inaccessible, alphanumeric gobbledygook.
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One by one, White's dummy files are encrypted, rendering them into inaccessible, alphanumeric gobbledygook.
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One of the reasons conservatives oppose the accord is more for its world-government gobbledygook than any specific requirements on carbon emissions.
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His book is written in a straightforward style stripped of gobbledygook: Your child’s life is not your life.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer reportedly hid in the bushes to avoid reporters, and Kellyanne Conway was dispatched to offer on-air gobbledygook to CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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gobbledygook Synonyms
Synonyms
bafflegab, double-talk, gibberish (also gobbledegook), rigmarole (also rigamarole), song and danceRelated Words
bureaucratese, computerese, educationese, governmentese, legalese, Pentagonese, psychobabble, technobabble; bombast, fustian, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, hype, oratory, rhetoric, windGOBBLEDYGOOK Defined for English Language Learners
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