(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."
Writing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Write
(n.) The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.
(n.) Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters
(n.) Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.
(n.) Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.
(n.) An inscription.
(n.) Handwriting; chirography.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(3) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(5) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
(6) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(7) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
(8) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
(9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
(10) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
(11) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
(12) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(13) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
(14) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(15) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(16) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
(17) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
(18) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
(19) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
(20) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.