bunkum
Example Sentences
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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
He’s delivered what Vladimir Nabokov said a biographer should: “plain facts, no symbol-searching, no jumping at attractive but preposterous conclusions, no Marxist bunkum, no Freudian rot.”
From New York Times • May 11, 2016
He became the voice of the British Empire, and the man who had always ridiculed Americans for bunkum oratory, out-screamed us all.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
