bunkum
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Or in his own words - spat out in a Yorkshire growl - "bunkum and balderdash".
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
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
It is all very well to talk bunkum on the platform, but the wire-pullers want cash for themselves and to work with.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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