kind of nonsense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkindandnonsense
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kind
noun[C]
uk/kaɪnd/us/kaɪnd/
a group with similar characteristics, or a ...
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nonsense
noun
uk/ˈnɒn.səns/us/ˈnɑːn.sens/
an idea, something said or written, or behaviour that is silly ...
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(Definition ofkindandnonsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We cannot afford thatkindofnonsense.
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This is thekindofnonsensebeing put out as national policy to local education committees and officers.
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What possible justification can there be for continuing thatkindofnonsense?
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Then you have these artificial wages where men are able to talk about striking for £40 a week and thatkindofnonsense.
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That is thekindofnonsensethat we hear from time to time, but rarely to quite such an extent.
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Let us try to avoid thiskindofnonsense.
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We cannot, therefore, accept thatkindofnonsensein a debate on investment income surcharge.
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I do not want any jokes about pure beer and thatkindofnonsense.
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That shows how silly it was that we should be financing an enormous organisation of this type by thatkindofnonsense.
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This is thekindofnonsenseone hears from people who have no better argument.
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It is obviously in our interests to stop thatkindofnonsense.
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That is thekindofnonsensethat too tight timetables often provoke: a standard response which says nothing.
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Surely thiskindofnonsenseought to be reconsidered and these decisions ought to be rescinded?
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Nothing does more to increase that prejudice than thekindofnonsensethat these councils have been promoting.
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I have nothing to do with thatkindofnonsense; it is not that kind of world at all.
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We really must put a stop to thatkindofnonsense.
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Whatkindofnonsenseand claptrap is this?
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Thatkindofnonsenseclearly cannot continue.
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They find that thiskindofnonsensedoes not enhance people's ability to pay.
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It would cope with all thekindofnonsensewith which doctors are inundated every day.
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