Synonyms of codswallop

codswallop

noun

ˈkȯdz-ˌwä-ləp 

British

as in nonsense

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

a trendy London restaurant serving bizarre concoctions that anyone with a brain and a stomach would dismiss as codswallop

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples of codswallop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Great story, total codswallop, says Skaife, who has pored through the archives and found zip. —William Booth, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018

And don’t forget codswallop, a word that sounds Shakespearean but was coined in 1959. —Stephen Miller, WSJ, 29 May 2018

Mnuchin tried to double-talk this codswallop past SPW. —Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 May 2017