Thesaurus / poppycock
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It happened on the same day Jack Phelan, a coach Gallagher adored, died suddenly at 66 after a lifetime that included being the man who ushered Hartford into Division I in 1981, back when many saw that idea as poppycock.
HOW A HARTFORD HUG BETWEEN COACH AND PLAYER SHOWED JOY, PAIN, RELIEF, STRUGGLE AND MADNESSCHUCK CULPEPPERMARCH 18, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThere's too much of the poppycock—too many of those long-haired, long-winded donkeys playing the miniature creator for my taste.
THE SCARECROW AND OTHER STORIESG. RANGER WORMSERThe Waif was no poppycock yacht, built to dodge about the Solent and run for Cowes if the wind blew a capful.
THE WHITE WATERFALLJAMES FRANCIS DWYER"I knew he'd talked a lot of poppycock about a man who was still living having been shot to death," Whitburn retorted.
THE EDGE OF THE KNIFEHENRY BEAM PIPERBilly Stark, coming in at the door, thought that sounded like poppycock, but Electra knew it was the wisdom of the chosen.
ROSE MACLEODALICE BROWNHas he really got these ideas—the ambitious poppycock that you talked about?
THE EXILES OF FALOOBARRY PAIN“Poppycock,” said Hudson, briefly, and resumed his cogitation.
THE MAN WHO FELL THROUGH THE EARTHCAROLYN WELLS"Poppycock," whispered Shelby to Carlotta, as he held her hand.
THE COME BACKCAROLYN WELLSAs for paying a hundred and twenty-five dollars a year rent for one, why, thats poppycock.
THE LUCKY SEVENTHRALPH HENRY BARBOUR“That is all poppycock,” exclaimed Compton, rather more irritably than was usual with him.
THE EFFICIENCY EXPERTEDGAR RICE BURROUGHSWORDS RELATED TO POPPYCOCK
- absurdity
- absurdness
- bunk
- carrying-on
- claptrap
- craziness
- dumb trick
- folly
- fool trick
- foolery
- horse feathers
- idiocy
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inanity
- indiscretion
- insanity
- insensibility
- irrationality
- irresponsibility
- ludicrousness
- lunacy
- madness
- mistake
- nonsense
- poppycock
- preposterousness
- rubbish
- silliness
- stupidity
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- twaddle
- unreasonableness
- unwiseness
- weakness
- witlessness
- zaniness
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- folly
- foolishness
- garbage
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hooey
- hot air
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- ludicrousness
- madness
- mumbo jumbo
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- soft soap
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
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