Thesaurus / hocus-pocus
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First negatively, it has not been done by any artificial means or legislative hocus-pocus (applause).
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESSVARIOUSIt is hocus-pocus, a sort of social magic formula like the "mutabor" in the Arabian Nights; it is an Aladdins-lamp philosophy.
THE BEHAVIOR OF CROWDSEVERETT DEAN MARTINHe complains that Gautier is lacking in a concern about supernatural hocus-pocus and that Flaubert is lacking.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUND"There's some hocus-pocus about this," whispered Trask, as he and Locke moved forward for a private talk.
ISLE O' DREAMSFREDERICK F. MOOREBut love was beginning its usual hocus-pocus with character and turning a tired business man into a restless swain.
THE CUP OF FURYRUPERT HUGHES"In respect to this hocus-pocus of yours, sir, with the laudanum and Mr. Franklin Blake," he began.
THE MOONSTONEWILKIE COLLINSHe shrieked: 'Hic hocus pocus,' parodying the 'Hoc corpus meum' of the Mass.
THE FIFTH QUEENFORD MADOX FORDIt would be a purely formal process—like renaming a "hocus-pocus" and calling it two "Abracadabras."
SOCIAL VALUEB. M. ANDERSONBy no trick of managers, no hocus-pocus of politicians, no "mush of concession," can we be released from this obedience.
CHARLES SUMNER; HIS COMPLETE WORKS, VOLUME III (OF 20)CHARLES SUMNERBy some hocus-pocus known to accomplished politicians, this city has had no Mayor since the 4th of June, 1867.
PUNCHINELLO, VOL. II., NO. 34, NOVEMBER 19, 1870VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO HOCUS-POCUS
- apparition
- bubble
- chimera
- confusion
- daydream
- deception
- delusion
- déjà vu
- error
- fallacy
- false impression
- fancy
- fantasy
- figment of imagination
- fool's paradise
- ghost
- hallucination
- head trip
- hocus-pocus
- idolism
- ignus fatuus
- image
- invention
- make believe
- mirage
- misapprehension
- misbelief
- misconception
- misimpression
- mockery
- myth
- optical illusion
- paramnesia
- phantasm
- pipe dream
- rainbow
- seeming
- semblance
- trip
- virtual reality
- apparitions
- bubbles
- chimeras
- confusions
- daydreams
- deceptions
- delusions
- déjà vus
- errors
- fallacies
- false impressions
- fancies
- fantasies
- figment of imaginations
- fool's paradises
- ghosts
- hallucinations
- head trips
- hocus-pocuses
- idolisms
- ignus fatuus
- images
- inventions
- make-believes
- mirages
- misapprehensions
- misbeliefs
- misconceptions
- misimpressions
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- optical illusions
- paramnesias
- phantasms
- pipe dreams
- rainbows
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- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
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- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
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