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词汇 guff
释义 guff
noun[ U ]
 informaluk /ɡʌf/ us /ɡʌf/
speech or writing that is nonsense胡说八道,胡言乱语,蠢话
Synonyms
bunk(NONSENSE)old-fashionedinformal
hogwashinformal
rotold-fashionedinformal
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

guff | American Dictionary


guff
noun[ U ]
 infmlus/ɡʌf/
(of speech or writing) nonsense:
All that talk about an economic crisis is a lot of guff.

Examples of guff


guff
I have been in the business of drawing up legislation for long enough not to fall for that guff.
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He gave us a lot of "guff", and we are getting exactly the same sort of "guff" now.
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His own legacy was dismissed as—in his own words—a "load of old guff".
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No one should deceive themselves into talking, as it were pre-war guff today.
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Are we to understand that it is all guff, wind, noise and words?
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What does this beautifully delivered, futuristic guff about free trade actually mean for the economies of the under-developed world throughout the whole of the universe?
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It was airy-headed, it was full of guff, and it was full of blah.
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Is it not time that he stopped reading this prepared guff?
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It is still guff when it comes out a year late.
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All that guff about "if the economic criteria are right" is subterfuge.
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The statement runs to five pages of guff, but contains nothing about education or transport.
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She must learn that "guff", or rhetorical oratory, is no substitute for a properly argued reply.
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In most parts of the country, people will say no, but let us ask them, trust them and not give them guff.
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I endorse all the arguments as to why it is guff.
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That sort of "guff" does not deceive me in the least.
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