Meaning of globaloney | Babel Free

Definitions

Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.

US, uncountable

Examples

“But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.”

“We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.”

“–an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney””

“Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries. Stop gloabaloney^([sic]), and let's solve our problems at home.”

“Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.”

“The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today.”

“Our forefathers, who created this country, rejected, totus porcus, the nonsense we spout today about egalitarianism and globaloney.”

“In fact, this is all a bunch of “globaloney” says Pankaj Ghemawat, professor of strategic management and Anselmo Rubiralta Chair of Global Strategy at IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, in his new book World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011).”

“And policies rooted in overestimating globalization — “globaloney” — could harm the people they purport to protect.”

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