How to Use malarkey in a Sentence

malarkey

noun

• He thinks everything politicians say is just a bunch of malarkey.
• The Markey malarkey came on the heels of another rash Musk tweet.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• The Davis story would have been key to not repeating the malarkey.
  — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• And don’t hand me any malarkey about the thrill of watching Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
• With the caveat that such maps are, for the most part, utter malarkey, Google Trends is back at it again for this year's Super Bowl.
  — Matt Bonesteel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2020
• One of the pillars of this collection has been color as neutral and the idea of what's appropriate and what's not is just sort of malarkey.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2015
• Boat-man 2 Hitman 2’s also got some release date malarkey going on.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 9 Nov. 2018
• That’s where working with the young progressive wing of the party instead of acting like their policies are a bunch of malarkey (to borrow his catchphrase) would come in handy.
  — Lily Herman, Teen Vogue, 4 Mar. 2020
• Yes, conspiratorial malarkey will always thrive -- but silencing the latest flavor of it is just a game of whack-a-mole.
  — John McWhorter, CNN, 14 June 2017
• If anything, last night reinforced our campaign's anti-malarkey stance.
  — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2020
• The regulations are particularly less-than-ideal for the companies—malarkey, some might say—because the city is among their largest markets.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019
• Some malarkey does get thrown into the mix: since his aims are frequently carnal, Lee’s mysticism can seem, even to him, like misdirection, or perhaps mood music.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• The people who spread malarkey also often set up fake accounts or break basic community standards.
  — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• The New York Times profiles a few pager repair specialists forced to rethink their career options and possibly learn that newfangled Windows malarkey.
  — David Becker, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
• Wall Street’s greatest minds are conducting surveys of smartphone buyers, checking with Asian factories that make iPhone parts and doing other financial research that is impressive but also infused with malarkey.
  — Shira Ovide, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2017

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024