Synonyms of guff

guff

noun

ˈgəf 

as in nonsense

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

and don't give me any of your usual guff about having to work late

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of guff

Don Shula is spinning in his grave; that or enduring a lot of guff from old football colleagues up in heaven. — Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025

This book exists, in other words, in order for Karp to have written a book … The book is filled with this sort of sanctimonious guff. — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025

But she's also just wrapped filming another movie for Netflix that will find her buff and taking no guff. — Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 3 July 2025

What sets even Milosz’s early poems of exile and displacement apart is his talent for burying an appalled stringency beneath sentimental guff. — William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025