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Recent Examples of hooey The old line about the 28 gauge having a square load is hooey. Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2019 But as comforting as a toddy may be, the notion of a dose of booze as a cold cure has always struck me as a load of hooey. M. Carrie Allan, charlotteobserver, 23 Jan. 2018 The scene where Skerrett has a highland fling with a blond, bearded hunk is more than a wee bit full of hooey. David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018 There was a whole lot of narrative hooey to explain the theme, which mostly had to do with caterpillars becoming butterflies, girls becoming women, et cetera. Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017 Contrary to the previous load of hooey dispensed by Junior and the first family, this dude was not a translator. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 July 2017 John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and not the most substantial waffle in the breakfast buffet, has been particularly energetic in slinging this hooey at the American people. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 7 July 2017 And that 38 percent believes accusations that Trump's campaign conspired with Russian hackers and spies to influence the election's outcome -- and the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the election -- are nothing but hooey. Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 15 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooey
Noun
  • Faced with a phrase that has no inherent meaning, the AI Overview still makes a good-faith effort to answer the user's request and draw some plausible explanation out of troll-worthy nonsense.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • None of this ‘support the teams from your country in Europe’ nonsense.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike a regular old garbage bag, these are leakproof and durable (and thus much harder for a squirrel to rip into, if given the chance).
    Sara Coughlin, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Four 20-pound bags of hamburger buns and sandwich breads got hit with Stop Sales, sending 80 pounds of bread into the garbage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Living Better From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism Why aim towards the ear?
    Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
  • American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.
    Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Among the debris were bricks, tins of paint, stones, and other assorted rubbish.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The effort has so far transformed more than 10 tons of flowers from would-be rubbish into fragrant souvenirs.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!
    Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The stupidity of enacting a massive tax increase on the entire global economy at this point doesn’t make much sense.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking.
    David Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Buckingham Palace simply couldn’t abide someone in its circle saying poppycock.
    Vulture, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This is, as Raymond Reddington might say, utter poppycock.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023

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“Hooey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooey. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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