bunkum
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"To suggest that we can't have effective scrutiny because of the size of the Senedd is a load of bunkum - look at the organ donation law, the smoking ban and plastic bags."
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2024
Almost no records survived, though, so the history of the Pony Express is littered with impostors, inaccuracies, and plain bunkum.
From National Geographic • Jun. 23, 2018
But this mercantilist logic has been known to be bunkum for centuries.
From Economist • Mar. 8, 2018
The idea that these technologies provide tabulae rasae on which events inscribe themselves is bunkum.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2014
It merely means that the kind of photography I must name "Fifth Avenue" art, is a conspicuous species of artistic bunkum, and must be recognized as such.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
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