Thesaurus results for MUMBO JUMBO

mumbo jumbo

noun

ˌməm-bō-ˈjəm-(ˌ)bō

Definition of mumbo jumbo next

as in nonsense

unintelligible or meaningless talk the soothsayer's predictions were nothing but mumbo jumbo

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Recent Examples on the Web The techie in me had some serious questions about the dialogue involving The Entity’s source code; he was overruled by the part of me that loves when movie dialogue devolves into scientific mumbo jumbo. —

Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023 Before getting down to business in Spain, Amorth is dressed down by a sniveling young Cardinal (Ryan O’Grady) who places little stock in supernatural mumbo jumbo. —

Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023 Ivanka and Melania Trump should not be associated with any of that legal mumbo jumbo going on with the former president. —

Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2023 To help, not to skip, through legal mumbo jumbo. —

Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 20 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for mumbo jumbo

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