Thesaurus / hogwash
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That alpine skier and the diver may think that the National Sleep Foundation’s recommendation of seven to nine hours for young adults is hogwash, so their decision to ignore it is perfectly reasonable.
ELITE ATHLETES DON’T SLEEP AS MUCH AS YOU THINKMMIRHASHEMJULY 20, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThat vague promise by Security was so much hogwash; yet it was surprising how much he had counted on it.
POLICE YOUR PLANETLESTER DEL REYHe had got possession, by some means, of a bit of waste ground behind a public-house in Hogwash-street.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. X., MARCH 1851VARIOUSToo many wrong things, too many highfalutin' notions, too much just plain old hogwash.
MY SHIPMATE--COLUMBUSSTEPHEN WILDERHogwash was beaten and so were all the favourites, and an outsider had won.
UNCLE JOE'S STORIESEDWARD HUGESSEN KNATCHBULL-HUGESSON, FIRST BARON BRABOURNEMy friends, I have heard the vows which Paaker has poured out over our pure altars, like hogwash that men set before swine.
UARDA, COMPLETEGEORG EBERSWot's the good of your ladlin' out that hogwash about huntin'?
SNOW-BOUND AT EAGLE'SBRET HARTEWORDS RELATED TO HOGWASH
- bilk
- bluff
- boondoggle
- catch
- cheat
- chicane
- con
- con game
- confidence game
- cover-up
- crock
- decoy
- device
- dodge
- fallacy
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- feint
- fib
- fraud
- gimmick
- hoax
- hogwash
- hustle
- illusion
- imposture
- jive
- lie
- malarkey
- mare's-nest
- pretext
- ride
- ruse
- scam
- sham
- shift
- shuck
- snare
- snow job
- stall
- sting
- story
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- trap
- trick
- whitewash
- wile
- wrinkle
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- coloring
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
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