What's the difference between bullshit and nonsensical?
Bullshit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
(2) It’s bullshit, I was on official visits, working at the US embassy.
(3) "We don't really want the bullshit and optimistic stuff that Michael has written ..." • Phil Jones, UAE, to Jonathan Overpeck, Arizona University, 8 February 2008 (email 3062) Jones is referring to new research by Michael Schultz of the University of Bremen – not, as many at first assumed, Michael Mann.
(4) We can’t just sit back, fold our arms and allow this bullshit to continue going on.” Nigerian historian Max Siollun believes the Biafra civil war, which left more than 1 million dead but did not directly affect some parts of the country, fostered a reluctance to document conflict.
(5) It doesn’t matter that he thinks he is.” ‘His populism is bullshit’ In a political landscape often shaped by the tweets of a twitchy-fingered president, the Democrats must find a message that resonates.
(6) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(7) As for the argument that they're being removed to protect them, that's just bullshit."
(8) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(9) It knows bullshit when it sees it, soon tires of the same old same old and hungers for something new all the time.
(10) It doesn’t just expose the unresolved issues from Ferguson or Staten Island from last year; it exposes the bullshit of how black people are still fighting for issues as basic as the right to vote .
(11) This discount factor is probably more resonant with progressive voters than conservative voters – but bear in mind the budget period has been incredibly damaging for Abbott in what I’ll crudely term the “I call bullshit” frame.
(12) That is the happeningthing, not whatever bullshit the papers tell us.
(13) The creepiest feature is a daily birthday cartoon starring some kiddywink from the viewing audience: parents upload a photo of their baby, whose head then appears on an animated body, taking part in some bullshit adventure about a missing cake.
(14) Sometimes its initiatives look to me like self-serving bullshit.
(15) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
(16) But Facebook players don't put up with that bullshit."
(17) "This 10% figure is bullshit," said one camper, who did not wish to be named but said he was from Birmingham.
(18) There is a case to be made against Trump that his populism is bullshit,” Favreau said, citing the nomination of billionaires and former Goldman Sachs executives to cabinet positions, which will be the wealthiest in US history, and moves to unravel the Dodd-Frank reform in a boon to Wall Street.
(19) I am happy to ramble on about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, but veggie dogs are some real bullshit “But Madeleine,” you say, “hot dogs are disgusting!
(20) December 16, 2014 Moral of the story: If it looks like bullshit, it probably is.
Nonsensical
Definition:
(a.) Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(3) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(4) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
(5) These data suggest that yeast tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase interacts with positions 34 and 35 of the anticodon of tRNATyr and opens the possibility that nonsense suppressor efficiency may be mediated by the level of aminoacylation.
(6) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
(7) Free recall of nonsense syllables was significantly better when these were learned under active compound.
(8) "It is clear this is a government which is short of ideas, desperately trying to bring up nonsensical diversions to distract attention from the situation in the country.
(9) Four regA mutants (regA1, regA8, regA11, and regA15) failed to make a protein having a molecular weight of about 12,000, whereas mutant regA9 did make such a protein; regA15 produced a new, apparently smaller protein that was presumably a nonsense fragment, whereas regA11 produced a new, apparently larger protein.
(10) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
(11) I’d have been a TV celeb type, done these albums that are nonsense – and yeah, with hindsight, that wouldn’t have been a bad idea.
(12) In addition, purified protein of 62,000 daltons, resulting from the suppression of the nonsense mutations tox-30 and tox-45, will react with antisera purified against the terminal 17,000 daltons of the toxin molecule and are immunologically identical to toxin by radial immunodiffusion.
(13) The other three carry nonsense mutations which inactivate both the excision repair and essential functions.
(14) La Manga in Spain is an example of human nonsense: 20km of city length, two kilometres wide, with huge buildings all along,” said Couet.
(15) In a sign of Labour's need to avoid tension with business, Darling was careful to stress he was not criticising the signatories but said: "I wonder if one of their finance directors came to them and said 'look, we have this wonderful idea, and we are going to pay with it by savings we have not yet identified and by calculations we cannot verify', they would say 'that is complete nonsense'."
(16) The mutation, which is not of the common CG-to-TG type, is at the same codon in which both nonsense and a different missense (Arg to Gln) have previously been observed.
(17) Introduction of an ochre nonsense codon into the reading frame of the leader peptide sequence leads to considerable reduction of the basal expression and loss of inducibility of the cat gene.
(18) On the Iraq war, he admitted he had voted in favour of military action in 2003 though he said he thought at the time that Blair's claims about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were "nonsense".
(19) Two nonsense mutations at codon positions 33 and 187 and an aberrant splice site were found in the human gene.
(20) The studies on the reverse mutation of osm3 indicated that this osmotic-sensitivity arises from a missense or nonsense mutation in OSM3 locus.