Pretentious nonsense
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

ROT
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

GAS
A pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas"

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

GUP

BOP
The law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes

DIM
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

4 letters

BLAH

BLAH
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

WIND
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

POKY
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

SCAT
Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

SHIT
Obscene terms for feces

SLOW
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

PALE
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

FADE
Gradually ceasing to be visible

FLAT
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

GUFF
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

NUMB
Make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

DULL
Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

COLD
The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

CRAP
Obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"

DEAD
People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

DRAB
A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

BUNK
A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

ARID
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

BULL
A serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"

BOSH
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

5 letters

SLACK
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

STIFF
The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

STOIC
A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"

SOPOR
A torpid state resembling deep sleep

SLOTH
Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

HOKAM

INANE
Devoid of intelligence

HOOEY
Senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"

HOKUM
A message that seems to convey no meaning

HOHUM

HEAVY
A serious (or tragic) role in a play

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

DUSTY
Covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

BLASE
Nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about housecleaning"

BLAND
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

BLANK
A blank gap or missing part

BLAHS
A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction

ALLOF

ALOOF
Remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

BILGE
Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship

TRIPE
Lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food

VAPID
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"

6 letters

APATHY
An absence of emotion or enthusiasm

TORPID
In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"

TORPOR
Inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

WOODEN
Made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"

SUPINE
Offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt

STUPOR
Marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor"

STUFFY
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

STODGY
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

SOLEMN
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

PIFFLE
Trivial nonsense

PROLIX
Tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"

PHLEGM
Inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"

LEADEN
Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"

NUMBED

PALLID
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

HUMBUG
Communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

HOTAIR
Air that has been heated and tends to rise

HOLLOW
A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

JEJUNE
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

EFFETE
Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

DREARY
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

DRAGGY

DISMAL
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

BUSHWA

BUNKUM
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

BORING
The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

BARREN
Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

7 letters

LANGUID
Lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"

PASSIVE
Expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"

TEDIOUS
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

STERILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"

JOGTROT
An easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot

INSIPID
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

HUMDRUM
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

HOGWASH
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

HARPING

EYEWASH
Lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes

BLATHER
Foolish gibberish

BALONEY
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

ATARAXY

8 letters

CLAPTRAP

UNCARING
Without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"

UNLIVELY

TOMMYROT
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

SLUGGISH
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

RESIGNED

SINGSONG
Speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong

PLODDING
The act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize his plod anywhere"

NONSENSE
Ornamental objects of no great value

MONOTONE
An unchanging intonation

OLYMPIAN
A classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans