bunkum

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Or in his own words - spat out in a Yorkshire growl - "bunkum and balderdash".

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2023

But in reality, some of what we think we know is bunkum and myth, quite often spread by the artist himself, who was famous for hiding behind a smoke screen of partial-truths and outright fibs.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2018

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

It's for them that all these atrocities are invented—most of them bunkum.

From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)