What's the difference between confection and fudge?

Confection


Definition:

  • (n.) A composition of different materials.
  • (n.) A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
  • (n.) A composition of drugs.
  • (n.) A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
  • (2) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
  • (3) Quite often, when the media reports a coalition "row" between the Tories and the Lib Dems, it has been confected by one or both of them because someone thinks it suits them to be seen on opposing sides of an issue.
  • (4) Apart from the confected row about the renewal of Trident , the two main parties seem curiously indifferent to what is going on beyond Britain’s shores, unless it involves immigration.
  • (5) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
  • (6) It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated third world dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened and reasoned for by orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.
  • (7) MIA emerged on the music scene in the mid-2000s, the perfect antidote to confection pop.
  • (8) Such metaphysical questions underlie the confection of her plot.
  • (9) In view of the considerable sales success of sugarless confections, accounting for over an estimated 30,000,000 lbs.
  • (10) On the other hand, the mutagen-negative diet was significantly frequent in fresh vegetables, cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, milk, bean curd, devils' tongue and confections.
  • (11) Fifty monkeys were fed SMA, a formula designed for human infants (9% protein, 43% carbohydrate, and 48% fat); 46 were fed one of three laboratory-confected diets varying in the amount of protein and carbohydrates provided.
  • (12) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
  • (13) The results confirmed that Lycasin would be preferred to sucrose as a sweetener for confections and medicines, although some softening of enamel by Lycasin was evident when compared to the saline controls.
  • (14) Andy Burnham , Caroline Flint – sensible Labour falls over itself to show who is the most realistic, where realism stands for accepting without question a vision of the country confected by their opponents.
  • (15) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
  • (16) Whether this highly aerated, minimally nutritious confection was actually invented in the United States or here remains fiercely contested, though sadly the myth that Margaret Thatcher was involved in its creation while working as a research chemist at the food conglomerate J Lyons & Co has been fairly thoroughly debunked.
  • (17) Apart from the approach routes, particular features of the technique used were essentially the size of the frontal flap extending to orbital roof, and mainly the confection of a pericranial flap formed of epicranial aponeurosis lined with frontoparietal periosteum and pedunculated at the orbital border.
  • (18) Others argue that the sense of a sectarian crisis – most notably over Syria – has been confected by the Assad regime.
  • (19) A controversial issue will often bring a blizzard of identikit protest of apparently confected anger but while clearly this lobby was organised most of the emails and letters we received were personal and heartfelt.
  • (20) I know what you're thinking: Christmas DVDs, promotional tours, robotically confected controversy … none of these really feel like the answer to the question: "What would Spartacus do?"

Fudge


Definition:

  • (n.) A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
  • (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
  • (v. t.) To foist; to interpolate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a tangled web between Salazar, Nike, Farah and the Nike Oregon Project on one hand, and the British Athletics performance director, Neil Black, and head of endurance, Barry Fudge, on the other.
  • (2) The current law, in which assisting someone to die is illegal but relatives are unlikely to be prosecuted, is agreed by all sides to be a fudge, a tough law with a kind heart.
  • (3) 11.38am BST Lord McColl of Dulwich refutes the suggestion that the current law is a fudge, stating that it is in fact clear.
  • (4) What Donald Trump did was address [voters] at a very different level, an emotional level, a racial level, a fear level, an anger level,” Fudge, a recent chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said at a roundtable with reporters on Thursday.
  • (5) While all my other questions have been answered, albeit halfheartedly, this one was not fudged or spun or mangled, but simply ignored.
  • (6) A classic fudge, which lets the prison service off the hook.
  • (7) The IMF is not going to swallow this classic piece of Brussels fudge.
  • (8) Matt Zarb-Cousin of CFFG told the Guardian that the measures were a fudge.
  • (9) Lucky Richard was assigned to Poke ’s most affable hosts, the restaurant critic Tracey MacLeod and her colleague, the rapper LL Cool J , who plied him with fudge and polystyrene all day, while I was understandably ignored by my master, a capable young comic newspaper columnist called Michael Andrew Gove.
  • (10) Witness the decades of clientelist Greek politics of left and right, the notoriously poor tax collection, and the fudging of statistics when the country joined the euro in 2001.
  • (11) Lyons inherited a difficult job as the first person to head an institution many insisted was a fudge to begin with, and that has never won widespread political support.
  • (12) Instead, Jil Matheson, who glories in the title of "national statistician", opted for a careful political fudge in which she announced that the RPI was a poor representation of prices and no longer meets international standards – but caved in to lobbyists' demands to keep publishing it anyway.
  • (13) And on those occasions when the chefs can’t cook up a compromise, the EU has a knack for defusing a crisis by “kicking the can down the road” or some other variant of delaying a day of reckoning or fudging a fundamental problem.
  • (14) Fear of being hounded by social services means some women fudge their decision to freebirth by booking a home delivery and then leaving it too late before calling the midwife; their babies' arrivals are recorded as BBA, or "born before [the midwife's] arrival".
  • (15) He is a divisive figure and it is more than an inconvenient truth that can be fudged.” There is some sign that a version of this message conveyed by European officials is getting through to Washington.
  • (16) As the UK Athletics chief executive, Niels de Vos, explained: “Neil and our head of endurance, Barry Fudge, have the utmost confidence in Alberto.
  • (17) Campaigners said they would welcome a firm deadline for CCS by the early 2020s, however a more flexible life-time emissions cap for plants was rejected as "fudge".
  • (18) Foreign affairs analysts predict that Hollande is not looking for an international bust-up when he meets Obama and some fudge may be worked out that would see a French troop withdrawal begin before the end of the year, two years earlier than US troops, but be phased over a longer period or French troops withdrawing from combat roles to purely training.
  • (19) Ben and Jerry’s co-founder announced the Food Fight Fudge flavour in support of Measure 92 in Oregon Photograph: Benjerry To understand the fight over Measure 92 better, we talked to Ivan Maluski, who runs a family-owned farm in Linn County, Oregon.
  • (20) The climate scientists at the centre of a media storm were today cleared of accusations that they fudged their results and silenced critics to bolster the case for man-made global warming.