empty words
Meaningless verbal fluff
Empty words are words that are not followed by actions or events that would give them meaning.
- bunkNonsense or stacked bed
- mumbo jumboDeliberately confusing language
- nonsenseMeaningless words or actions
- hot airMeaningless boastful talk
- all talkPromises without follow-through
meaningless · paper tiger · palaver · nonsensicality · smoke and mirrors · rhetoric · hokum · house of cards · prattle · sound and fury · tokenism · mouthing off · circumlocution · insincere · hypocrisy · flattery · mirage · platitude
- insincerityinsincerity, phoniness, fakeness, falseness, pretense
- word phrasesbuzzword, catchword, byword, watchword, codeword
- non-apologiesnon-apology, fauxpology, sorry not sorry, mistakes were made, sorry but
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- evasionevasion, avoiding, avoids, evade, dodging
- nonsensenonsense, absurd, gibberish, gobbledegook, gobbledygook