Incomprehensible or pretentious verbiage, especially bureaucratic jargon.
‘the smooth chairman who had elevated bafflegab to an art form’
‘FLUFF APPRECIATION DAY (In honor of all those who excel in the art of bureaucratic bafflegab, delightful double-speak, and twisted-tongued titillations)’
‘‘It is through such bafflegab that bureaucracies attempt to avoid responsibility and bureaucrats seek anonymity,’ he said.’
‘We were discussing the Reflections document and the ecclesial bafflegab of which it is composed.’
‘It's bafflegab for talk, more talk, and even more talk; committee meetings, First Ministers' meetings, regularly scheduled meetings with the Prime Minister's Office.’
‘Today's modern workplace is awash in buzzwords, bafflegab, and all manner of blessed bumpf to wade through or digest over a morning latte with a dab of whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles on top.’
‘For some, ‘information theory’ is simply another source of bafflegab.’
‘Gordo, the head post, is sending out bafflegab to media and students stating that what he is doing is returning autonomy to post-secondary institutions.’
‘But Netser was quick to pick up on the bafflegab.’
‘There was a lot of bafflegab in the speech, a lot of nonsense.’
‘To test whether such bafflegab also pays in print, Armstrong asked 20 management. professors to rank the academic prestige of 10 management journals.’
‘Aquarium's plans to expand are awash in park board bafflegab.’
‘In 1952, in a pique over bureaucratic language, then-assistant general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce coined the word bafflegab."’
‘Such a word-by-word translation may seem weird bafflegab, but is renders the different grammar structure in your target language transparent.’
‘Bafflegab is not just annoying; it can have genuinely dangerous consequences.’
‘Climatologists' protests drowned in a sea of environmentalist bafflegab.’
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