as in nonsense
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
the librarian told us a lot of hogwash about how you can go to jail for having overdue books
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Recent Examples of hogwash
But that's hogwash, experts say.
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Kelly Dinardo, Health.com, 5 Jan. 2022
Film music historians agree that this is hogwash.
—Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
Which is pure hogwash.
—Star Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
The latter hogwash led to a deeply disappointing number of online videos of people sticking metal objects to themselves.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2023
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Kelly Dinardo, Health.com, 5 Jan. 2022
Film music historians agree that this is hogwash.
—Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
Which is pure hogwash.
—Star Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
The latter hogwash led to a deeply disappointing number of online videos of people sticking metal objects to themselves.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hogwash
Noun
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Describing the plot as utter nonsense would both be 100 percent correct and likely taken as a massive compliment for all involved.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Mar. 2025
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For Guy, using systems like Kibbe’s to guide your dress choices can mean making nonsense out of your clothes’ cultural grammar, especially in the rigidly codified world of menswear.—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.—
Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Mar. 2025
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This dumping exacts a devastating environmental toll—leaching toxic contaminants into water, air, and food, and miring whole regions in growing fields of rubbish.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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This includes brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.—
Brandon Withrow,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
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Beausoleil makes that claim, and argues that stupidity and self-preservation is also a sound reason for the Manson murders.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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Brooks – an author of books on the human condition -- is careful to delineate stupidity from intelligence.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Sam apologized awkwardly, trying covertly to swipe beneath her chin, checking for drool and feeling like the world’s schlubiest schlub for struggling to tear her eyes from this stranger when the love of her life had dumped her an hour earlier.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Over time, drool evolved in the 19th century as a more specific term for saliva spilling or dripping from the mouth.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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“Hogwash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hogwash. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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