(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.
Eatable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
(n.) Something fit to be eaten.
Example Sentences:
(1) The element intake is calculated from the cobalt content in raw foods after elimination of the non-eatable moiety by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy, after formation of a chelate with ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC) and extraction with 4-methyl-2-pentanone (MIBK) according to a procedure developed and verified in a previous paper.
(2) The eatables were investigated at a 2% concentration.
(3) He criticised the food provided to him during his incarceration which he described as "un-eatable."
(4) Heat treatment under these conditions was found to reduce the biological value of the eatables.
(5) He has previously said the food he was given was "un-eatable" .
(6) Tetrahymena pyriformis strain W was used as the testing subject for the determination of the biological value of selected eatables.
(7) The mercury content of 16 eatable mushroom species from different geographical areas was determined by flameless atomic absorption spectroscopy.
(8) Part of the test eatables was subjected to heat treatment at 0.1 MPa and at the temperature of 121 degrees C for 120 minutes.