Synonyms of taradiddle

taradiddle

noun

ˌter-ə-ˈdi-dᵊl 

variants or tarradiddle

1

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

his tales of adventure are peppered with tongue-in-cheek taradiddles and obvious fabrications

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lie
• tale
• story
• fabrication
• ambiguity
• fairy tale
• fable
• fib
• falsehood
• distortion
• mendacity
• untruth
• prevarication
• exaggeration
• falsity
• deceit
• fiction
• whopper
• nonsense
• libel
• defamation
• bluff
• perjury
• half-truth
• obliquity
• slander
• misrepresentation
• pretence
• misconception
• myth
• misstatement
• fallacy
• equivocation
• deceitfulness
• falsification
• humbug
• duplicity
• pose
• canard
• misinformation
• dishonesty
• pretense
• jive
• fraudulence
• misreport

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• fact
• truthfulness
• truism
• honesty
• confirmation
• verification
• validation
• veracity
• verity
• authentication
• substantiation

2

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

regards literary deconstruction as so much tenure-track taradiddle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• jazz
• blah
• blatherskite
• silliness
• rubbish
• flapdoodle
• bunk
• boloney
• falderal
• balderdash
• punk
• garbage
• bunkum
• claptrap
• absurdity
• trumpery
• blither
• twaddle
• baloney
• hokum
• humbuggery
• folderol
• malarky
• poppycock
• rot
• buncombe
• nuts
• fudge
• piffle
• insanity
• hogwash
• guff
• fiddlesticks
• hokeypokey
• bilge
• stupidity
• crock
• blah-blah
• malarkey
• tommyrot
• foolishness
• fiddle
• hooey
• fiddle-faddle
• codswallop
• blather
• madness
• craziness
• tosh
• absurdness
• blarney
• bosh
• applesauce
• muck
• hoodoo
• humbug
• bull
• trash
• drivel
• crapola
• beans
• drool
• folly
• moonshine
• horsefeathers
• nerts
• senselessness
• flannel
• idiocy
• slush
• inaneness
• foolery
• tomfoolery
• kookiness
• rigamarole
• lunacy
• witlessness
• imbecility
• inanity
• fatuity
• shenanigan(s)
• rigmarole
• asininity
• monkey business
• hot air
• hocus-pocus
• greek
• hoity-toity
• monkeyshine(s)
• double-talk
• gas

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• common sense
• sense
• horse sense
• sensibleness
• judgment
• levelheadedness
• wisdom
• judgement
• reasonability
• discernment

Examples of taradiddle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Some are esoteric but still used—like taradiddle, which the list notes was recently used by J.K. Rowling but saw more play in the work of Gilbert and Sullivan, Honoré de Balzac and G.K. Chesterton. —Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017

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