See twaddle on Wiktionary
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"text": "You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man!",
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"ref": "1886, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Science of Deduction”, in A Study in Scarlet (Beeton's Christmas Annual; 28th season), London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., November 1887, →OCLC; republished as A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, new edition, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., 1892, →OCLC, page 28",
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"ref": "1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, chapter 12, page 66:",
"text": "It was her other self who had written that letter. It not only bored, it rather disgusted her real self. \"Flippant and silly,\" said her real self. Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym.",
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