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taradiddlenounor tarradiddle a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceivehis tales of adventure are peppered with tongue-in-cheek taradiddles and obvious fabrications fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, whopper distortion, exaggeration, half-truthambiguity, equivocation, obliquitydefamation, libel, slanderperjurybluff, fiction, pose, pretense(or pretence)humbug, jive, nonsensecanard, fallacy, misconception, mythfalsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatementdeceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence truth fact, truism, verityhonesty, truthfulness, veracityauthentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good senseregards literary deconstruction as so much tenure-track taradiddle applesauce(slang), balderdash, baloney(also boloney), beans, bilge, blah(also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull(slang), bunk, bunkum(or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop(British), crapola(slang), crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel(British), flapdoodle, folderol(also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers(slang), humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey(also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts(slang), nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacyabsurdness, craziness, madness, witlessnesshoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolerygas, hot air, rigmarole(also rigamarole)double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensiblenesscommon sense, horse sense, sensediscernment, judgment(or judgement), wisdom ca. 1796 |