hooey
Example Sentences
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Stuart Reges, who taught computer science at the school since 2004, thought this was hooey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
Skeptics will cast a jaundiced eye on what is about to take place, dismiss Rose’s lessons as hooey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
This is, and it cannot be stressed enough, total hooey.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2022
Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it “a sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
Its buffoonish hooey and end-of-the-pier music may have amused its creative team and some critics, but with the benefit of hindsight its timing seems tasteless and incomprehensible.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
