Word Finder - nonsense

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Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.

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After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.

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An untrue statement.

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He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.

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That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.

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Something foolish.

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A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.

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A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

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To make nonsense of;

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To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.

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To joke around, to waste time

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Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

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Nonsensical

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An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

I don't want to hear any more of this nonsense about magic.

Don't talk nonsense to me.

I thought that was TV nonsense until a few minutes later the phone rang and damned if he hadn't done just that!

If I hear this nonsense again, I'll send you outside the walls to deal with this mess personally.

She couldn't help wondering if Evelyn really understood that going to his home country would mean she'd hear this kind of nonsense all the time.

What nonsense! she said, hoping it was a joke.

All that ruler business was just nonsense, but we are friends forever.

The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile.

Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must apologize.

Then we started hearing all this nonsense about Byrne until it got us wondering if there might be something to it, so we did a little detecting ourselves.

It will drive all the nonsense out of your head.

Nonsense, you're not putting us out, but you're more than welcome to use the phone... and please call me Sarah.

A torrent of nonsense escaped from Jade, a mix of words that made no sense.

Nonsense. You can save Jonny.

It's not nonsense, Papa.

Take. Mine.  Be done with this nonsense.  Leave my mate and my hatchling alone!

The Christian idea of a special providence is nonsense, an insult to the deity.

In the third circle, Naryshkin was speaking of the meeting of the Austrian Council of War at which Suvorov crowed like a cock in reply to the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals.

He was getting tired of all this cloak-and dagger nonsense.

The grandmother put up with the pernicious nonsense.

You drop this nonsense and tell the people to get ready to leave their homes and go to Moscow and to get carts ready for tomorrow morning for the princess' things.

It is no answer to the objection that a reading in some Roman poet makes nonsense to say that its Latinity is perfect or its metre excellent.

He was indignant at the idea of valuing honor above life, calling the whole notion nonsense.

Surely there is no-one stupid enough to actually believe this nonsense?

Nonsense, I tell you.

While maintaining a strict, no nonsense demeanor, Frost uses encouragement and positivity as her core techniques.

Thus, once again we encounter the sheer absurdity and nonsense advanced by pro-vivisectionists.

If the whole activity of the leaders serves as the expression of the people's will, as some historians suppose, then all the details of the court scandals contained in the biographies of a Napoleon or a Catherine serve to express the life of the nation, which is evident nonsense; but if it is only some particular side of the activity of an historical leader which serves to express the people's life, as other so-called "philosophical" historians believe, then to determine which side of the activity of a leader expresses the nation's life, we have first of all to know in what the nation's life consists.

Of course, all of this is tendentious nonsense.

There is no reason for you to put up with that kind of stress, or to be plain, nonsense.

Does it aggravate you that your loved one lies, and do you wish he/she would stop all of the nonsense?

So the speculation that she will not attend the wedding because she won't be able to sit with Andrew and her daughters is complete nonsense.

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This model is a solid, no nonsense guitar that is perfect for a beginner.

The acute phase of schizophrenia is also characterized by incoherent thinking, rambling or discontinuous speech, use of nonsense words, and odd physical behavior, including grimacing, pacing, and unusual postures.

Her parents were not happy, as she was expected to go on to an affluent career much like her father, and her staunch religious background also did not allow much room for such creative nonsense.

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Where there previously were simple sentences, there is now silence or inappropriate nonsense words.

Are you buying into this nonsense?

We tried to tell her that's just nonsense.

Damian straightened, at his limit with the cryptic nonsense.

I know you and that's nonsense!

Lydia Larkin thought the story was nonsense.

I thought she was just being paranoid, like some bad TV nonsense.

He hated all this emotional nonsense, and had it been anyone but Sarah, he would have made a hasty retreat and stayed away until the waterworks passed.

Nonsense. You're a lovely girl, and I won't permit you to put yourself down at my table.

I guess he was 'high profile'— king of the clan or some nonsense like that.

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Your opposition to the regime of Mugabe is the ultimate riposte to his fraudulent nonsense about fighting colonialism.

Being pupils of Charcot, they endeavored to support his obviously fallacious theories, but merely succeeded in producing a mass of pseudo-scientific nonsense.