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globaloney

Syllables: glo·ba·lo·ney/ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/US/ˌɡloʊ.bəˈloʊ.ni/

globaloney noun: absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.

Noun

globaloney (uncountable)

  1. (US) Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
    • But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.1943, Clare Boothe Luce, Congressional Record, volume 89, page 761
    • We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.1950, Joseph S. Davis, “Population and Resources: Discussion of Papers by Frank W. Notestein and P. V. Cardon”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 45, number 251, page 346

Examples of globaloney in a sentence

  • –an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”1988, Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, page 142:
  • Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.1995, William L. Oneill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II, Harvard University Press, page 197:
  • The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today.2006, Michael Veseth, Globaloney: Unraveling The Myths Of Globalization, Rowman & Littlefield, page 19:
  • Our forefathers, who created this country, rejected, totus porcus, the nonsense we spout today about egalitarianism and globaloney.2007 May 8, Patrick Buchanan, “Jamestown as It Never Was”, in RealClearPolitics, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021:

Origin of globaloney

Blend of global + baloney. Coined by American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist Clare Boothe Luce in 1943 to disparage the recommendation of then-Vice President Henry Agard Wallace that airlines of the world be given free access to US airports.

Words that rhyme with globaloney

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Questions about globaloney

What does globaloney mean?
Globaloney means absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
How do you use globaloney in a sentence?
–an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”
What part of speech is globaloney?
Globaloney is a noun.
How do you pronounce globaloney?
Globaloney is pronounced /ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/ (UK).

Words near globaloney in the dictionary

  1. globalizer
  2. globalizers
  3. globalizes
  4. globalizing
  5. globally
  6. globaloney
  7. globals
  8. globalwide
  9. globar
  10. globard
  11. globards

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