as in nonsense
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
the librarian told us a lot of hogwash about how you can go to jail for having overdue books
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Recent Examples of hogwash
Misinformation and anti-science hogwash will continue to plague us.
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Andrew Winston,
Fortune,
21 Dec. 2025
This is the sort of expert hogwash that Reiner, for a while, did better than anyone.
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Will Leitch,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
How To Make Cheese Straws With Ease Cheese straws get a bad rap for being difficult to make, but that’s a load of hogwash.
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Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
21 Nov. 2025
Some are eager to make the comparison; others denounce it as hogwash and misappropriation.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hogwash
Andrew Winston,
Fortune,
21 Dec. 2025
This is the sort of expert hogwash that Reiner, for a while, did better than anyone.
—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
How To Make Cheese Straws With Ease Cheese straws get a bad rap for being difficult to make, but that’s a load of hogwash.
—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
21 Nov. 2025
Some are eager to make the comparison; others denounce it as hogwash and misappropriation.
—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hogwash
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hogwash
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Even Hauser can’t rescue this culturally insensitive, stereotype-perpetuating nonsense.
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Some beer companies even make canned versions of the drink, but forget that nonsense — there is nothing better than a fresh, handmade michelada.
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Since construction at the Eagle Rock site — so nicknamed after a decrepit colonnade — first stalled in 2008, the only thing that accumulated faster than the garbage and graffiti were the epithets from outraged community members.
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Relying Too Much On Garbage Disposals Though the name may be deceiving, garbage disposals aren’t actually designed to dispose of all garbage.
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Her lab has found even modest additions to the diet — a handful of nuts or an avocado — can enrich certain beneficial bacteria over the course of a few weeks.
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Including foods like avocado, olive oil, nuts, or seeds can make your meal more satisfying and may also stimulate digestion.
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So where does the rubbish come from?
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With no petrol to run dustbin trucks, rubbish is being burnt in the streets.
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That shooting makes up for what is a fairly blah resume otherwise.
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Best Fashion Deals If your summer wardrobe is feeling a little blah, Amazon’s Outlet fashion deals are the perfect place for a refresh.
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Which again, highlights the stupidity of allowing these exceptions in the first place.
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Final negotiations on ‘Peace’ are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.
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The silliness of that aspect of the story is baked into this interpretation, with several very meta acknowledgments.
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No, no jersey burnings or any of that silliness in the wake of Antetokounmpo working his way out of Milwaukee.
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“Hogwash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hogwash. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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