hogwash
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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
But no hogwash or baloney: Would anything ever pass if they were?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
By just being aware of how we perceive information, we can protect ourselves from disinformation and hogwash.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2022
Rather than shaking the authorities into an investigation it made the author a pariah and he was accused of writing hogwash for personal gain and out of bitterness, because his prediction hadn't come true.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2021
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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