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hokum
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of HOKUM
[noncount] informal
1
chiefly US : foolish or untrue words or ideas : nonsense愚蠢的言论；废话
- Everyone knows his story is pure hokum.所有人都知道他的叙述是一派胡言。
2
: writing, music, etc., that is too dramatic or sentimental and not very original过于感伤的作品
- His new film is yet another piece of Hollywood hokum.他的新片是好莱坞的又一感伤作品。
Synonyms
- applesauce [slang]
- balderdash
- baloney
- boloney
- beans
- bilge
- blah
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blatherskite
- blither
- bosh
- bull [slang]
- bunk
- bunkum
- buncombe
- claptrap
- codswallop [British]
- crapola [slang]
- crock
- drivel
- drool
- fiddle
- fiddle-faddle
- fiddlesticks
- flannel [British]
- flapdoodle
- folderol
- falderal
- folly
- foolishness
- fudge
- garbage
- guff
- hogwash
- hokeypokey
- hoodoo
- hooey
- horsefeathers [slang]
- humbug
- humbuggery
- jazz
- malarkey
- malarky
- moonshine
- muck
- nerts [slang]
- nonsense
- nuts
- piffle
- poppycock
- punk
- rot
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- slush
- stupidity
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- trash
- trumpery
- twaddle
Example Sentences
Everyone knows his story is pure hokum. His new film is yet another piece of Hollywood hokum.
Recent Examples on the Web With hokum such as this, my credulity can be counted on. 
Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 And, of course, Goop embraces the long-standing hokum known as homeopathy, which essentially claims ritualized dilutions of poisons can cure disease and anthropomorphic water molecules can remember how to heal you. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022 Greekman’s feels subtly evocative without any hokum and serves uplifting food that meshes with the California growing seasons. Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021 This film and those of its ilk — The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Dig being two superior examples — offer a more dignified alternative to the hokum of Nicholas Sparks, but in this case, not by much. Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021 President Biden is in part a hostage to his own campaign mythology — the blue-collar guy from Scranton — and all the hokum that goes along with it. The Editors, National Review, 15 June 2021 Yet the American space-industrial complex is sustained by Hollywood hokum. David Beers, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020 Downtrodden Democrats will need to come to grips with the reality that vast swaths of the country like or, at least, accept the hokum and hatred that Trump has been peddling. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020 This isn’t some kind of health food store hippie hokum. Tim Macwelch, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2020 See More
Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 And, of course, Goop embraces the long-standing hokum known as homeopathy, which essentially claims ritualized dilutions of poisons can cure disease and anthropomorphic water molecules can remember how to heal you. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022 Greekman’s feels subtly evocative without any hokum and serves uplifting food that meshes with the California growing seasons. Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021 This film and those of its ilk — The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Dig being two superior examples — offer a more dignified alternative to the hokum of Nicholas Sparks, but in this case, not by much. Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021 President Biden is in part a hostage to his own campaign mythology — the blue-collar guy from Scranton — and all the hokum that goes along with it. The Editors, National Review, 15 June 2021 Yet the American space-industrial complex is sustained by Hollywood hokum. David Beers, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020 Downtrodden Democrats will need to come to grips with the reality that vast swaths of the country like or, at least, accept the hokum and hatred that Trump has been peddling. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020 This isn’t some kind of health food store hippie hokum. Tim Macwelch, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2020 See More Word History
Etymology
probably blend of hocus-pocus and bunkum
First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
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