Twaddle vs Denounce - What's the difference?
twaddle | denounce |
To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
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, title= (obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
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To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
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To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
(obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
As verbs the difference between twaddle and denounce
is that twaddle is to talk or write nonsense; to prattle while denounce is (obsolete) to make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.As a noun twaddle
is empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.twaddle
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;nonsense * 1918 , , Prelude , Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 118, *: Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym. ;rubbish * 1887 , , A Study In Scarlet , Beeton's Christmas Annual, (Chapter 2 - The Science of Deduction), pages 1-95 (exact page number not known). *: "What ineffable twaddle !" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, "I never read such rubbish in my life."Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling .}}
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denounce
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Verb
(denounc)- Nero .
- to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
- to denounce a confederate in crime
- to denounce someone to the authorities
- to denounce''' war; to '''denounce punishment