What does idle words mean?

idle words means "empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk".

What is another word for idle words?

Close synonyms include wind, malarkey, malarky, jazz, nothingness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is idle words a common word?

idle words is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Idle words — meaning, 5 synonyms and examples

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
“that's a lot of wind”
“don't give me any of that jazz”
Synonymswind malarkey malarky jazz nothingness
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