Malarkey definition

mə-lärkē

I decided it was a bunch of malarkey and stopped reading about halfway through.

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Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive.
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(slang) Insincere, meaningless, or deliberately misleading talk; nonsense.
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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of malarkey - malarky, mullarkey

Origin of malarkey

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Of unknown origin.

    From Wiktionary

Malarkey Sentence Examples

  • Anyway, enough of this walking malarkey, its back to the station for hot showers and a square meal.

  • If you're still not really sure about all this podcasting malarkey, let us just clarify.

  • I would like to know what people think of this oldest chopper in the world malarkey?

  • Next step for us is to shake it all up a bit and take this whole malarkey a hell of a lot more seriously.

  • If they were to tell the truth about electoral reform, that pesky democracy malarkey would just get in their way.

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