hocus-pocus
Example Sentences
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Mentalist and theater artist Vinny DePonto, a bearded, soft-spoken man with gentle eyes, doesn’t want to bamboozle us with hocus pocus.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2022
It's just something, it’s hocus pocus whatever, but you know what I'm saying?
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2018
“Dew manipulated the slides. The one clue we couldn’t figure out was the placard, but they played hocus pocus with the placard. We were given something that had been altered.”
From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2017
My sensitive, pale, unathletic, bookish uncle rebuffed and resented the male intruder, and when he was an adult I remember him ranting and raving against psychiatrists and their fraudulence, their unscientific hocus pocus.
From Slate • May 22, 2012
Also, there is no hocus pocus that can possibly be devized with rings and veils and vows and benedictions that can fix either a man's or woman's affection for twenty minutes, much less twenty years.
From Getting Married by Shaw, Bernard
