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Examples of poppycock in a Sentence
That's a lot of poppycock!
starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock
Origin and Etymology of poppycock
poppycock Synonyms
Synonyms
balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle;
Near Antonyms
levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness;
common sense, horse sense, sense;
discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom;
Related Words
absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy;
absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness;
monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery;
gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole);
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