hokum
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈhoʊkəm/
- US
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tontería
- The whole idea is complete and total hokum made up by fraudsters in order to sell useless crap to gullible people.
- pure hokum
- much hokum
- so much hokum
Occam's razor says that is hokum nonsense bollocks.
- Occam's razor says that is hokum nonsense bollocks.
Examples
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One of the leading religious right groups in California appears to have embraced anti-vaccination hokum.
Blog text (15) -
As the Americans would say, it's all fairy tales and hokum--
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What kind of plastic hokum is this?
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It's a shame we lost somebody like Steve to hokum like that.
Blog text (6) -
When I saw you hanging around her and falling for all that hokum, I had to do something, I had to save you.
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The heartaches, the excitement, the applause, the lights, the hokum, everything.
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We are apparently incorrigible victims of hokum, a term of our own used to designate the fraud that is common, intimate, and honored.
Academic text (1991) -
Many people dismiss NLP education and training as hokum and think that the only method to convince you is by using medication or recognized fields like psychology.
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But don't expect the suckers, saps, and morons that slurp this hokum up to care very much.
Blog text (13) -
Many people dismissed his theories as mere hokum that lacked any logical basis.
Synonyms
578
2.5
Words or ideas that do not make sense
22
6.7
Nonsense talk that is not true
16
7.4
Untrue or silly talk that people should not believe
15
9.9
Silly talk that is not true
13
8.8
Talk that is not true and tries to trick people
10
9.9
Silly talk that is not true
9
9.9
Confusing speech or writing full of technical words that most people cannot understand
3
8.9
Silly talk or ideas that are not true
1
9.9
Talk that is false and meant to fool or impress people
1
6.0
Things people say that are completely untrue or pointless
Antonyms
How Nonsensical
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hokum probably comes from old stage words like hocus-pocus, used by performers to mean a 'trick' or fake show. A helpful way to remember it is that it first named cheap stage tricks and then came to mean any 'nonsense', which is why today hokum means silly or untrue talk.