What's the difference between balderdash and twaddle?

Balderdash


Definition:

  • (n.) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
  • (n.) Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
  • (v. t.) To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Twaddle


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
  • (n.) Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The twaddle that the theory is extremely difficult to understand, is complete nonsense, spread out by superficial journalists.
  • (2) It's pompous twaddle with no relevance to fucking anything."
  • (3) He’s not wrong to want to cut out aspirational twaddle, but American audiences have been trained to expect the twaddle.
  • (4) A collection of letters penned by Albert Einstein in which he set out his views on how to deal with a belligerent post-war Russia and dismissed as "twaddle" the notion that his theories were difficult to understand, will go under the hammer in London next Thursday.
  • (5) "Sadly neither does Brendan's management-speak twaddle.
  • (6) Patronising” and “demeaning” were some of the kinder terms used, while en route the campaign has been described by detractors as “sexist twaddle” .
  • (7) The main substance of this paper was presented orally at a meeting of the Sick Role, organized and chaired by Andrew Twaddle.
  • (8) Is it good, emotive fare, or whiny, offensive, Coldplay-lite twaddle sung by the least convincing frontman since Jason Lee starting cultivating a pineapple?
  • (9) From a lesser figure, this would be self-indulgent twaddle.
  • (10) … Ahem, sorry I appear to have had an attack of the Brendan Rodgers with that spot of motivational twaddle.
  • (11) I believe I have heard this kind of twaddle uttered by politicians in Ireland like Bertie Ahern, the former prime minister.
  • (12) When Gove and Boris Johnson come in, you think, ‘Hey, there’s a new dimension to this.’ And then you get that load of twaddle!
  • (13) "The twaddle that the theory is extremely difficult to understand, is complete nonsense, spread out by superficial journalists."