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词汇 gobbledegook
释义 gobbledegook
noun[ U ]
 informaldisapproving(alsogobbledygook)uk /ˈɡɒb.əl.di.ɡuːk/ us /ˈɡɑː.bəl.di.ɡuːk/
language, especially used in official letters, forms, and statements, that seems difficult or to mean nothing because you do not understand it: (尤指公文用语中)复杂而无实质内容的语言,冗长而费解的文字;官样文章
This computer manual is complete gobbledegook.这本计算机使用手册完全是本冗长的天书。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Nonsense
a crock (of shit)idiom
babble
balderdash
balls
baloney
blah
blather
blither
double-talk
doublespeak
drivel
eyewash
flapdoodle
moonshine
mumbo jumbo
nonsense
nonsensical
nonsensically
prattle
rhubarb

Examples of gobbledegook


gobbledegook
Is it any wonder that the result is sometimes laws which are written in gobbledegook, whose meaning is so unclear that even the lawyers can't agree on it?
Unfortunately, some management gobbledegook has crept in too; things like, "360 degree feedback".
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Will he ensure that licence payers get better value for money by having more spent on programmes and journalists and less on gobbledegook managers?
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Our proposals will enable parents to make their own judgments without being barraged with a lot of sociological gobbledegook.
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It is verbose; it is full of gobbledegook; it contains a great deal of technocratic mumbo-jumbo; and it is special pleading.
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It is not a woolly term like"management techniques"and"improved research"and all that gobbledegook and claptrap which we have heard so often.
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The fact remains, however, that recipes are now all printed in what is gobbledegook to most people.
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He described article 3b as a "prime example of gobbledegook".
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He has come up with so much gobbledegook that we need clarification.
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What awful gobbledegook we are subjected to these days!
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When most ordinary people read our legislation, they consider it to be gobbledegook; they cannot understand it.
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There is the answer—in a couple of dozen words, not of gobbledegook but of straightforward business talk.
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I do not regard the code of guidance as gobbledegook, but it is slightly fearsome.
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Most of it is gobbledegook and comes to no real conclusion about the benefits of so-called zero inflation and price stability.
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I do not wish to insult the promoters or those who gave evidence with the best of intentions, but it reads like gobbledegook to me.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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