hokum

Example Sentences

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The Opening Ceremonies spent so much time justifying the existence of these Games — with hours of pageantry, hokum and solemn commemorations more rote than heartfelt — that the joy of athleticism was mostly missing.

From Washington Post

Natasha had a little sister in Ohio: Yelena, who, like Natasha, was a precocious KGB trainee, but who was young enough to have believed all the capitalistic hokum about cozy Christmases and close-knit nuclear families.

From Washington Post

We mostly trusted Walter Cronkite and it was harder for crackpots and propagandists to widely spread hokum.

From Washington Times

With that in mind I had hoped for some truly eyebrow lifting sideshow hokum to aid the bamboozlement in going down easier.

From Salon

Do you think I should tell my therapist that I reject such hokum, or find another person to tell my troubles to?

From Washington Post