How to Use malarkey in a Sentence

malarkey

noun
  • He thinks everything politicians say is just a bunch of malarkey.
  • The Markey malarkey came on the heels of another rash Musk tweet.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Davis story would have been key to not repeating the malarkey.
    — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a lot of malarkey but also shreds of promise in trying to move beyond the smartphone.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • That confusing, round-robin, group-style Olympic basketball malarkey is over!
    — Zach Harper, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • If anything, last night reinforced our campaign's anti-malarkey stance.
    — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Boat-man 2 Hitman 2’s also got some release date malarkey going on.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 9 Nov. 2018
  • And don’t hand me any malarkey about the thrill of watching Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
  • One of the pillars of this collection has been color as neutral and the idea of what's appropriate and what's not is just sort of malarkey.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2015
  • You were fed the same load of malarkey about soccer — right up until Orlando City stepped up and paid for its own stadium.
    — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Will the 49ers go with the best-player-available malarkey from the draft or select players to fit specific roster needs?
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The people who spread malarkey also often set up fake accounts or break basic community standards.
    — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 23 May 2018
  • With the caveat that such maps are, for the most part, utter malarkey, Google Trends is back at it again for this year's Super Bowl.
    — Matt Bonesteel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Yes, conspiratorial malarkey will always thrive -- but silencing the latest flavor of it is just a game of whack-a-mole.
    — John McWhorter, CNN, 14 June 2017
  • The technology shown in the video is plausible, but basically everything else is a bunch of malarkey.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The play strengthens in the second act, which is a combination of exquisite action and narrative malarkey.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where working with the young progressive wing of the party instead of acting like their policies are a bunch of malarkey (to borrow his catchphrase) would come in handy.
    — Lily Herman, Teen Vogue, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The regulations are particularly less-than-ideal for the companies—malarkey, some might say—because the city is among their largest markets.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Wall Street’s greatest minds are conducting surveys of smartphone buyers, checking with Asian factories that make iPhone parts and doing other financial research that is impressive but also infused with malarkey.
    — Shira Ovide, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2017
  • Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration agreed to restore some funding for the Office of the Clerk and Recorder, but called malarkey on Clerk Paul López’s claim that election integrity was in danger for the 2026 midterms.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025

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