slush

1 language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense how can you stand to read that slush in the tabloids? Synonyms applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, nonsense, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddleRelated Words absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocusNear Antonyms levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

2 soft wet earth he paused in front of the doorway to wipe the slush off of his boots Synonyms guck (or gook), mire, muck, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, mudRelated Words gumbo, silt; clay, dirt, gravel, humus, loam, sand, soil

3 something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental a musical that has been reviled as pure slush by the New York critics Synonyms goo, mush, schmaltz (also schmalz), sludge, corn, soap opera, sorghumRelated Words claptrap, drivel, rubbish, tripe

4 that which is of low quality or worth discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write Synonyms cheese, crapola [slang], dreck (also drek), muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, junk, trash, tripeRelated Words camp, kitsch; claptrap, humbug, nonsense; bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey; mess, muddle, shambles