nonsense

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01. What you are saying is [nonsense]. No one would ever agree to it.
02. It is total [nonsense] to suggest that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
03. If you ask me, ESP, communication with spirits, new age religion, and all that crap is pure [nonsense].
04. I'm tired of all this [nonsense] about having to fight for peace. War can never do anything but create more problems.
05. I think that ghost stories are absolute [nonsense].
06. Dennis Lee writes delightful [nonsensical] poems for children.
07. Your girlfriend doesn't want to break up with you. That's just [nonsense]. She's crazy about you.
08. I hope you won't believe that [nonsense] that Bob said about me.
09. If you ask me, it's [nonsense] to suggest that women can't succeed in the business world.
10. Most of the advertising you see on television is total [nonsense]. You can't trust anything they say.
11. She thinks the [nonsense] she reads in the tabloids is true.
12. Popular magazines often have stories about famous celebrities, but most of what they report is just [nonsense].
13. The last words of John Sedgewick before being shot by an enemy soldier were, "[Nonsense], they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
14. George Bernard Shaw once remarked that there is no subject on which more dangerous [nonsense] is talked and thought than marriage.
15. Benjamin Britten once said that the old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea, and sitting up all night to write it is [nonsense]. Night-time is for sleeping.
16. Edmond De Goncourt once noted that that which perhaps hears more [nonsense] than anything in the world is a picture in a museum.
17. Roald Dahl once wrote that a little [nonsense] now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
18. Gelett Burgess once suggested that to appreciate [nonsense] requires a serious interest in life.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • NONSENSE — « A piece of nonsense », c’est en anglais courant une bêtise, une absurdité: un «non sens» bien sûr; et pourtant, le terme anglais a une richesse spécifique. Anglais d’abord parce que la langue anglaise en est le lieu sonore d’élection; ainsi les …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Nonsense — es una figura literaria que puede ser en verso o en prosa, que busca generar, juegos de palabras que trasgreden las formas comunes de la sintaxis y la semántica, juegos que resultan extraños, comúnmente humorísticos y absurdos. Literalmente… …   Wikipedia Español

  • nonsense — nonsense, twaddle, drivel, bunk, balderdash, poppycock, gobbledygook, trash, rot, bull are comparable when they mean something said or proposed which is senseless or absurd. Nonsense is the most general of these terms; it may be referred to… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • nonsense — Uses of nonsense as a countable noun (i.e. preceded by a or in the plural) have become common in current use, especially in BrE: • I knew you d make a nonsense of it so I told Wallis to be ready to take over L. Cooper, 1960 • I could only pray… …   Modern English usage

  • Nonsense — Non sense, n. [Pref. non + sense: cf. F. nonsens.] 1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. [1913 Webster] 2. Trifles; things of no importance. [1913 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • nonsense — index jargon (unintelligible language), platitude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • nonsense — / nɑnsəns/, it. / nɔnsens/ s. e agg. ingl. [propr. sciocchezza , comp. di non non e sense senso ], usato in ital. come s.m. e agg., invar. ■ s.m. [cosa insensata, assurda e sim.: quello che dici è un n. ] ▶◀ assurdità, insensatezza, nonsenso.… …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • nonsense — (n.) 1610s, from NON (Cf. non ) + SENSE (Cf. sense); perhaps influenced by Fr. nonsens …   Etymology dictionary

  • nonsense — |nònsénce| s. m. Aquilo que é contrário à razão ou ao bom senso. = ABSURDO   ‣ Etimologia: palavra inglesa …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • nonsense — [n] craziness, ridiculousness absurdity, babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bananas*, bombast, bull*, bunk*, claptrap*, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash*, hooey*, hot air*, imprudence, inanity,… …   New thesaurus

  • nonsense — ► NOUN 1) words that make no sense. 2) foolish or unacceptable behaviour. 3) an absurd or unthinkable scheme, situation, etc. DERIVATIVES nonsensical adjective nonsensically adverb …   English terms dictionary

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