variants also malarky

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Recent Examples of malarkey That confusing, round-robin, group-style Olympic basketball malarkey is over! Zach Harper, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024 Will the 49ers go with the best-player-available malarkey from the draft or select players to fit specific roster needs? Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024 You were fed the same load of malarkey about soccer — right up until Orlando City stepped up and paid for its own stadium. Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024 There’s a lot of malarkey but also shreds of promise in trying to move beyond the smartphone. Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for malarkey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for malarkey
Noun
  • Everyone will be there — except Lydia, who Joseph dispatches on a nonsense errand to D.C.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2025
  • The sequel has more glamour, more trouble and maybe a bit too much nonsense 1 Comments The first Simple Favor, from 2018, was a playful, shallow mystery most notable for casting the lovely, languid Blake Lively as a cynical, devious clothes horse named Emily Nelson.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Living Better From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism Why aim towards the ear?
    Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
  • American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.
    Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Wodehouse had displayed nothing worse than the stupidity of the innocent.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Malarkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malarkey. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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