Thesaurus / hogwash
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
That vague promise by Security was so much hogwash; yet it was surprising how much he had counted on it.
POLICE YOUR PLANETLESTER DEL REY
He had got possession, by some means, of a bit of waste ground behind a public-house in Hogwash-street.
Too many wrong things, too many highfalutin' notions, too much just plain old hogwash.
MY SHIPMATE--COLUMBUSSTEPHEN WILDER
Hogwash was beaten and so were all the favourites, and an outsider had won.
UNCLE JOE'S STORIESEDWARD HUGESSEN KNATCHBULL-HUGESSON, FIRST BARON BRABOURNE
My friends, I have heard the vows which Paaker has poured out over our pure altars, like hogwash that men set before swine.
UARDA, COMPLETEGEORG EBERS
Wot's the good of your ladlin' out that hogwash about huntin'?
SNOW-BOUND AT EAGLE'SBRET HARTE
WORDS RELATED TO HOGWASH
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- flightiness
- folly
- foolishness
- fun
- gibberish
- giddiness
- hogwash
- hooey
- hot air
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jest
- jive
- joke
- ludicrousness
- madness
- mumbo jumbo
- palaver
- poppycock
- prattle
- pretense
- ranting
- rashness
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- soft soap
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- trash
- tripe
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.