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

The coney was like hooey And squealed our requitals.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White