(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.
Nonsense
Definition:
(n.) That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.
(n.) Trifles; things of no importance.
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.