hokum
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applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
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The story of Abner Doubleday inventing baseball in Cooperstown has long been dismissed as hokum. — Jared Diamond, WSJ, "The First Recorded Game of Baseball Was Played…in England?," 24 June 2019 By neatly interweaving the lives and works of his four subjects, Mr. Nevala-Lee shows that SF navigates a narrow course between the Scylla of scientific rationality and the Charybdis of fantastic hokum. — Michael Saler, WSJ, "It Came From the Future," 18 Oct. 2018 Into this world of darkness and folk hokum, in 1635, was born Francis Willughby. — David Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, "'The Wonderful Mr. Willughby' profiles a pioneer of ornithology and early scientist," 12 July 2018 His teachings were simplistic, filled with hokum, like a 15-year-old's diary entry. — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, "The story of the 15-year-old guru who came to the Astrodome to save the world," 12 Apr. 2018 The film has a lot going for it, alongside a certain amount of hokum. — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, "Review: ‘The Post’ is both inspired and hokey," 11 Jan. 2018 Returning writers/directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore spring for enough offensive fun to keep the audience giggling between the Christmas hokum. — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, "Review: 'A Bad Moms Christmas' is big on holiday schmaltz, short on fun fruitcakes," 1 Nov. 2017 This is hokum, a product of a morbidly amusing photo taken of Dillinger while his body was on display at the Chicago morgue. — Neal Taflinger, Indianapolis Star, "Debunking the myths surrounding John Dillinger, Indiana's most wanted man," 31 Aug. 2017 When the pre-show finally began, so did the hokum that would define the rest of the night. — Aisha Harris, Slate Magazine, "Springtime for the Confederacy," 24 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hokum.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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