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
- hokeypokey
- hokum
- 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
Examples of hogwash in a Sentence
You wouldn't believe the hogwash he was spouting at us.
the librarian told us a lot of hogwash about how you can go to jail for having overdue books
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The Reynolds administration has been something of a one-stop shop for this kind hogwash that’s blind to the consequences of loosening child labor laws.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
And any mention of the actor and composer as porcines of interest would be pure hogwash.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
Bluntly, this is hogwash.
—Tim Reynolds, ajc, 7 May 2022
But that's hogwash, experts say.
—Kelly Dinardo, Health.com, 5 Jan. 2022
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
And any mention of the actor and composer as porcines of interest would be pure hogwash.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
Bluntly, this is hogwash.
—Tim Reynolds, ajc, 7 May 2022
But that's hogwash, experts say.
—Kelly Dinardo, Health.com, 5 Jan. 2022
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“Hogwash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hogwash. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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hogwash
noun
hog·wash
ˈhȯg-ˌwȯsh 
ˈhäg-,
-ˌwäsh
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