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bunkum

[buhng-kuhm] / ˈbʌŋ kəm /






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"To suggest that we can't have effective scrutiny because of the size of the Senedd is a load of bunkum - look at the organ donation law, the smoking ban and plastic bags."

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024

Almost no records survived, though, so the history of the Pony Express is littered with impostors, inaccuracies, and plain bunkum.

From National Geographic ● Jun. 23, 2018

But this mercantilist logic has been known to be bunkum for centuries.

From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2018

He’s delivered what Vladimir Nabokov said a biographer should: “plain facts, no symbol-searching, no jumping at attractive but preposterous conclusions, no Marxist bunkum, no Freudian rot.”

From New York Times ● May 11, 2016

You think it's all bunkum that I'm fresh out of Germany, but it isn't.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Coningsby Dawson


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