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
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 sympathized with it in principle; but its inevitable accessories—the bloodshed, the bustle, and above all, perhaps, the bunkum which accompanied it—were to him absolutely hateful....
From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 by Various
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