hooey
Example Sentences
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We constantly hear from pseudoscience grifters and bleach-drinking advocates that we shouldn’t get vaccines because, well, because of a bunch of hooey.
From Salon
Most women crash against a glass ceiling despite their best efforts to “lean in” and all that hooey.
From Salon
Skeptics will cast a jaundiced eye on what is about to take place, dismiss Rose’s lessons as hooey.
From Los Angeles Times
He met proselytizers who told him they had personally raised people from the dead, or witnessed mass graves come back to life, which Hancock called “hooey and hokum.”
From New York Times
No charges were filed against Burns, a former cattle auctioneer who dismissed criticism over the matter as “old political hooey.”
From Seattle Times
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