Every one of us who ridiculed his business plan as a bunch of hokum should be embarrassed we did.
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Hokum
//ˈhəʊkəm//
Synonyms for "hokum" (208 found)
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Dutch
2 entries- effectbejag noun ((an instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, etc.)
- klatergoud noun ((an instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate)
Finnish
1 entries- hölynpöly noun ((an instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate)
French
1 entries- absurdité noun ((an instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate)
Spanish
2 entries- cursilada noun ((an instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, etc.)
- cursilería noun ((an instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, etc.)
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Recently that publication [Collier's Weekly] has been filling its readers with the good old hokum about red likker and its steady disappearance, and if what has been offered be but half true, beer, light wine and all of the other beverages which have been tabooed by law, are on their way to that place where nothing returns.
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Being in a mood of constructive criticism, I suggest that all future student conferences be made strictly social affairs. All addresses, forum discussions, patriotic service, and other hocums, as such, shall be done away with. Outside of a handful of persons, who either had to or did not know any better, everybody shunned the non-social events.
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I think we have learned to beware of these political charlatans. We have enough horse sense to neutralize their hokum. But let's start right now to take their hokum apart and show up its component elements for just what they are—the siren songs of demagogy.
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