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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