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  • noun Plural form of twaddle.

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Examples

  • Voltaire is not to be mentioned, Schiller twaddles through a tissue of sheer inventions and impossible absurdities, and even Southey, who strives to be faithful to history, thinks he must invest her with a 'suppressed attachment' in order to render her sufficiently interesting to be the heroine of a poem.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

  • The lies, twaddles, and contrivances about this affair are innumerable.

    Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

  • What I wish is to give examples of how he has discarded all the involutions, convolutions, twiddles and twaddles of melody, and gone back to the simplicity and directness of Weber and Beethoven.

    Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

  • What I wish is to give examples of how he has discarded all the involutions, convolutions, twiddles and twaddles of melody, and gone back to the simplicity and directness of

    Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891

  • Christian style the millennium and universal brotherhood; or twaddles humanistically about the soul, culture and freedom; or doctrinally matches out a system of harmony and wellbeing for all classes.

    Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

  • At the name of Dryden he smiled, and the smile spoke as plainly as a smile could speak, “How the old woman twaddles!”

    Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

  • In between the ritual apologies worthy of Brenda Lee, we can be entertained by the chorus of sound bites, delivered by opportunistic members of the Congressional committees, with their twaddles flapping in full outrage.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bob Franken 2010

  • It Is improper to leave a lord waiting alone while a common gentleman twaddles about with servants. "

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

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