Examples of hokum in a Sentence
Everyone knows his story is pure hokum.
His new film is yet another piece of Hollywood hokum.
Recent Examples of hokum from the Web
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His teachings were simplistic, filled with hokum, like a 15-year-old's diary entry.
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The film has a lot going for it, alongside a certain amount of hokum.
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Returning writers/directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore spring for enough offensive fun to keep the audience giggling between the Christmas hokum.
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This is hokum, a product of a morbidly amusing photo taken of Dillinger while his body was on display at the Chicago morgue.
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When the pre-show finally began, so did the hokum that would define the rest of the night.
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This business of saving for future generations is hokum and has become a platitudinous, self-righteous argument legislators use to further their own agendas.
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A biting satire attacking the ignorance which provides oxygen for this hokum -- and the tragedy that can result from it -- the BAFTA nominee and Cinefondation alumni is not pulling her punches.
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Martin died earlier this year, but his zany approach to life, which included abstaining from tea and water in favor of beer, is captured in How to Live Forever, a new documentary that dips into philosophy, science and hokum.
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Origin and Etymology of hokum
First Known Use: 1908
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearhokum Synonyms
Synonyms
balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle;
Near Antonyms
levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness;
common sense, horse sense, sense;
discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom;
Related Words
absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy;
absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness;
monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery;
gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole);
HOKUM Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of hokum for English Language Learners
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: foolish or untrue words or ideas
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: writing, music, etc., that is too dramatic or sentimental and not very original
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