poppycock
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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, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
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But the legend lives on, and that’s not just plain poppycock. — Los Angeles Times, "Newsletter: A crackdown on China hits U.S. academia," 22 July 2019 To those who think AI is hopeless at getting humor, the machines have one word for you: poppycock. — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, "Bejesus! A cockamamie AI can predict which craptacular words you’ll find funny," 17 June 2019 But the legend lives on, and that’s not just plain poppycock. — Los Angeles Times, "Newsletter: A crackdown on China hits U.S. academia," 22 July 2019 To those who think AI is hopeless at getting humor, the machines have one word for you: poppycock. — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, "Bejesus! A cockamamie AI can predict which craptacular words you’ll find funny," 17 June 2019 For a website that proclaims it is providing the truth and nothing but the facts, this line about the tax cuts and economic growth is poppycock. — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, "N.D. Republican’s Senate campaign ‘fact-checking’ website promotes false claim on CBO estimates," 18 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'poppycock.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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