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also falderal
as in nuts
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
wanted a dignified, simple wedding and not the folderol that the wedding planner was trying to foist on them
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Recent Examples of folderol
The worst instance of intersectional folderol is Jeffrey Wright’s subplot exploiting the racially confused legacy of both James Baldwin and Anatole Broyard.
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Nov. 2021
But this is a mess of its own making, a needless folderol that accomplished nothing beyond making the group seem messy and divided.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
For instance, designer David Zinn has built the show a lovely Buckingham Palace, repeating the gilt folderol of the Longacre Theatre’s proscenium on the columns and gates that enclose the stage.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
Firefox and Safari had already deprecated third-party cookies some time ago, without much digital ad industry folderol and no industry input.
—David Doty, Forbes, 25 May 2021
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Nov. 2021
But this is a mess of its own making, a needless folderol that accomplished nothing beyond making the group seem messy and divided.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
For instance, designer David Zinn has built the show a lovely Buckingham Palace, repeating the gilt folderol of the Longacre Theatre’s proscenium on the columns and gates that enclose the stage.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
Firefox and Safari had already deprecated third-party cookies some time ago, without much digital ad industry folderol and no industry input.
—David Doty, Forbes, 25 May 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folderol
Noun
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Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, kale and asparagus are also included in most low-carb diets—as are eggs, cheese, Greek yogurt and nuts like walnuts, peanuts, macadamia nuts and pistachios.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Any actor that’s been working for over three decades has a giant garbage bag filled of pilots.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
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Bears are generally solitary, shy animals but are food-driven and often find easy meals in garbage bins.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Sovereignty’s Kentucky Derby victory in the muck at Churchill Downs sparked curiosity over whether the colt can build on his signature win over a possibly drier, faster surface on the Triple Crown trail.—
Gary B. Graves,
Baltimore Sun,
4 May 2025
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The town of Grand Isle was stuck in the muck of disaster.—
Mark Strassmann,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2025
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Kennedy has elevated threats to the livelihoods of scientists who have resisted his brand of balderdash from the implicit to the explicit.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Nov. 2024
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While schools do exist in rough tiers of selectivity, size, excellence, prestige and so forth, the idea of precise rankings is balderdash.—
David M. Perry,
CNN,
14 Sep. 2022
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This time, the technique is turned upon classic alien invasion movies of the Golden Age with liberal helpings of pure human stupidity as a seemingly peaceful first contact moment goes awry and gets bloody, leading to a solar system-ending flatulent finish.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
17 May 2025
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Tiny terror is unleashed in this mini alien apocalypse as directors Robert Bisi and Andy Lyon pay loving tribute to classic sci-fi stories of alien invasion and human stupidity using tilt-shift techniques that make the end of the world look almost cute.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Alongside a pervasive interest in alternative-medicine practices and New Age beliefs, more people could be in danger of getting pulled into the flapdoodle.—
Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2024
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Poppycock with an average flapdoodle reading of +10 million fiddle faddles.—
Caity Weaver,
New York Times,
23 Nov. 2022
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Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Many Red Sox fans have had it up to here with that building-for-the-future claptrap, so much so that expectations were scary low coming into the 2024 season.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
31 July 2024
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The public is simply not buying it and is looking for an alternative. Enough of the twaddle about how voting Democratic is voting to save democracy.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Jan. 2024
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Perhaps News Nation is trying to assume the mantle of Fox News as a dispenser of right-wing twaddle, or (to be more charitable) of CNN as a sober neutral voice.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2023
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“Folderol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folderol. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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