(1) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
(2) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
(3) The balderdash quotient is high at all party conferences, but at a time like this people will wince more than ever at high-minded phrases from government ministers that disguise a very different reality.
(4) That kind of balderdash brings politics into disrepute.
Bunkum
Definition:
(n.) Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
(n.) See Buncombe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Touched as I am by this sudden outpouring of concern for the security of my seat, it is, of course, complete bunkum.
(2) Philips said the two main arguments against each contender – that McGowan doesn’t look like a premier and Smith is not in parliament – are bunkum.
(3) Claims by the energy industry that they can’t cut prices because they bought their supplies far in advance are nothing more than bunkum,” she said.
(4) Predictably, the debate that has followed stays within these polarised parameters of accepting it as brave or dismissing it as "bunkum" , and has failed to look at the content of the reforms being proposed.
(5) Debi Goenka, the Mumbai activist who challenged Adani’s environmental licence for its mine in the Queensland land court in 2014, said Australian government figures continued to rely on arguments about imported coal lifting Indians out of poverty, which were “all bunkum”.