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bunkum
noun as in guff
noun as in hooey
noun as in rubbish
Strongest match
Weak match
noun as in tommyrot
Strong matches
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- folly
- foolishness
- garbage
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hooey
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- madness
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
Weak matches
Example Sentences
The move will likely be cheered by public health advocates who have struggled to combat such harmful bunkum online during the devastating pandemic.
A grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant.
He became the voice of the British Empire, and the man who had always ridiculed Americans for bunkum oratory, out-screamed us all.
But I'm blowed if this bunkum don't make me inclined to turn Radical rat.
And I might have known all the time that it was so much bunkum, just a yarn to get out of my hands.
Their magic of the first kind is compounded of pure bunkum and fraud.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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