Meaning & use
farrago
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A confused mixture or jumble of inconsistent or unrelated things.
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The politician's speech was a farrago of half-truths and slogans.
Critics dismissed the novel as a farrago of tired clichés.
A note on using this word
Farrago originally meant a mixed batch of grain fed to cattle in Latin, before it came to describe any jumbled mixture of ideas.
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