Hans Matheson

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

Scottish Actor

R. A. Salvatore

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.

American Author

Kathy Griffin

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

American Comedian

Holly Willoughby

Everybody thinks I wear fake tan but I hate fake tan! Never been able to get on with it. I'm always linked to different fake tan brands and it's nonsense because I've probably had three fake tans in my life.

English Celebrity

Kashmira Shah

Films like 'Jungle' are rare. It was a powerful role and in the future I would like to be associated with such films rather than being part of nonsense stuff.

Indian Actress

Robert Smith

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

English Musician

Northrop Frye

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Canadian Critic

Freeman Dyson

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

American Physicist

Horace Walpole

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

English Author

Gelett Burgess

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Used casually among friends or in relaxed settings to express disbelief or rejection of an idea.

Often Informal

When frustrated, you might label something as 'nonsense' to show strong disagreement.

Expressing Irritation

Use an adverb like 'complete' or 'utter' to emphasize that something is entirely nonsensical.

Intensity with Adverb

Calling an idea 'nonsense' can sound dismissive and be perceived as rude or brusque.

Dismissive Tone

Sometimes used humorously among friends without offending, depending on tone and context.

Not Always Negative

In formal or professional contexts, use more neutral vocabulary instead of 'nonsense'.

Avoid in Formal Writing

In a light-hearted context, 'nonsense' can relax a serious conversation.

Use to Lighten

In genetics, 'nonsense' is a specific term and should be used strictly within a scientific context.

Technical Specificity

Do not confuse genetic 'nonsense' with the everyday use; they are not interchangeable.

Not Interchangeable

 when we were almost wrapped in a duvet. We used to understand intuitively the importance of sleep. And this isn't some sort of crystal-waving nonsense. This is a pragmatic response to good health. If you have good sleep, it increases your concentration, attention, decision-making, creativity, social skills, health.

Why do we sleep? PIPE...

 because it's so silly, but there's a belief amongst governments that the domestic agenda and the international agenda are incompatible and always will be. This is just nonsense. In my day job, I'm a policy adviser. I've spent the last 15 years or so advising governments around the world,

Which country does the...

 And let's jump back to thinking about what's funny, because some people say it's real truth is funny. It's funny because it's true. But that's simplistic. Plenty of lies are funny. Comedic fiction can be funny. Made-up nonsense jibberish is frequently hilarious. For instance, florp --

What's the definition of...

 they weren't ready the worms took too long to, to mature so they weren't ready when I got there and I just said you know what, forgot this and I packed them into my bag and I flew back with them to California. And so my housemates at this point are used to this kind of nonsense

Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...

 observers who study this country and the reason for this is that when you asked him me about her business she claims that it is a state-owned enterprise but this is nonsense in reality who me simply pays a portion of a profit to a government ministry she keeps the remainder

The life of North Korean...

 And we must do something about those problems. But at the same time, as Arthur C. Clarke said, The rotting of the human mind, the business of believing in the paranormal and the occult and the supernatural -- all of this total nonsense, this medieval thinking --

Homeopathy, quackery and...

 go through a circular anus very true okay this is my favorite one the third one okay so the wombats poo a normal spherical shaped faecal deposit but then they turn around and they use their paws to shape it. Nonsense you said they produced 80 a day.

Wombats Poo Cubes! PIPE...

 You guys know the show, we use take one; we don't do take two. There's no writing, there's no scripting, there's no nonsense. We don't fool around, we don't rehearse -- we shoot what we get! I said, "Stop. This is nuts." I mean -- "This is crazy.

Learning from dirty jobs...

 this is nonsense. People are not paid what they are worth. They are paid what they have the power to negotiate, and wages' falling share of GDP is not because workers have become less productive but because employers have become more powerful.

The dirty secret of...

 One myth that really bugs me is the idea that you need eight glasses of water a day. Honestly, it's pretty shocking how ingrained it is. You hear it on TV, you see it in articles. But like I said, it's nonsense. For the most part,

Nonsense

Something that is not logical or does not make sense.

Often appears as...

An idea, statement, or belief that is silly or not true.

Often appears as...

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

Often appears as...

In genetics, a mutation that introduces a premature stop codon into a protein-coding gene.

Usage tips

Often Informal

Expressing Irritation

Intensity with Adverb

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