hogwash
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His wife Amanda was less discreet about it - she went on social media to describe the claims as "a load of hogwash".
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024
On July 27, for example, Steve Inskeep, the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, conducted a servile interview in which he sat meekly by as Allen spewed unalloyed hogwash.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023
Somewhere on the road between hogwash and baloney, Washington ran into reality.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023
Mayer said the suggestion that a dialogue was possible if the governor had been nicer “is the biggest load of hogwash I’ve ever seen and I’ve worked in politics 20 years.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023
I didn’t know why I was holding my breath because I knew that the old saying of how you could hold your breath and nothing would sting you was pure hogwash.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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