How To Use Bunkum In A Sentence
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It's so tightly plotted, full of action, has a wonderful black/white morality to it, and best of all, none of the cast notice that it's total bunkum.
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(25, 294) See also bunkum. makebate, n. contentious person.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
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Looking around, I saw several parents who seemed as uneasy as we did with this bunkum.
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This emphasis on "teamwork"is bunkum-a conspiracy of the mediocre majority.
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But in recent days the government has stepped up its defense of the plans, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday describing criticism of the tax as "bunkum" and "balderdash.
Canberra Doesn't Retreat on Profits Tax
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Queen's College, under "old Jack's" rule; and, having kept up the acquisition, I found it now of considerable use, for, it caused me to be sent about much more than might otherwise have been the case -- to report the speeches of prominent public men, whether they were "stumping the provinces" throughout the Union, or basking in the blazing "bunkum" of the capital at Washington.
She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
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Where are all those ‘free-trade’ ideologues now that their theories have turned out to be bunkum, devastating American working families?
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It will suffice to state that ninety-seven were relegated to the "bunkum" pocket, and seven retained as conveying intelligent orders worthy of consideration.
On the Heels of De Wet
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In Australia this question is dismissed as leftist bunkum, but in Europe, where the atmosphere is generally not as politically charged, it's just obvious.
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There is a good article here on what a lot of bunkum psychological ‘counselling’ often is.
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At some seminary or other a master wrote "bunkum" on an essay, and the student couldn't make the letters out -- thought it was a Latin word "luckum.
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
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In fact, it shows that all the half-hints at challenges and hard choices and pain heard from leading SF representatives over the weekend was bunkum.
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Anyone with common sense knows it's all complete bunkum.
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Mr. Seward has talked some nonsense of the "bunkum" kind about the seizure of Canada, but this he will now, being in a responsible position, be inclined speedily to forget, and we shall be happy to imitate him.
London, Saturday, January 26, 1861.
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To the petulant outbreaks on this question of the professors of "bunkum" which some of the latest accounts tell us have not been wanting, even in the comparatively sedate discussions of the Senate, we attached little weight, for we believed they were no longer in accordance with the feeling of the
Prospects of the Year
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`Don't believe that bunkum about opals being unlucky," said the note that accompanied it.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Most Australians believe this is bunkum, pure and simple, because they'd already lost confidence in the integrity of the system.
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Now, however, upon the repeated expression of fears from Lyons that this might be more than mere "bunkum," Russell began to instruct
Great Britain and the American Civil War
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Baron of Bunkum - the best source for dross and drivel in the queendom!
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But an unusually wonderful and totally involving display at Tate Modern makes almightily clear that this view is bunkum.
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Let me be blunt: the idea that ‘Invasion’ is a Cold War allegory is bunkum.
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Perhaps more relevantly, he is also widely credited as being the first ‘spin-doctor’, a claim or accusation he robustly rebuts in this book as ‘all bunkum and balderdash’.
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Bad laws are there to be broken and no one with a smidgen of self respect and national pride should apologise to anyone for taking a stand against such bunkum.
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But for the most part our endless classifying, grouping, and arranging is nothing but high-grade hokum, mixed with a lot of bunkum.
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It is superfluous to mention that the whole of the messages sent by the local intelligence departments and by the De Wet expert were dismissed as "bunkum," often without perusal.
On the Heels of De Wet
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This whole “new way” line of bunkum is all smoke and mirrors.
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It is entirely possible to drink any wine with any dish, and anyone who says otherwise is talking bunkum; a respected gastro-bore friend of mine likes to drink white burgundy with stewed lamb, as he finds it brings out the texture of the meat.
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It is all part of the patronising, diplomatic bunkum accorded that curious species known as the caretaker who, if truth be told, is doing no more than buying the club time as they endeavour to find someone better.
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If any one were to ask him how people are to live within their means when they've not got any, he would reply with the word "bunkum" and clinch the argument with a grunt.
War-time Silhouettes
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Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation.
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Don't believe what he's saying it's pure bunkum.
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Anyone who says that standards are falling is talking bunkum.
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It's a sad commentary that so many journalists mouthed such bunkum with straight faces - and that Americans didn't quickly laugh this grandiloquence out of the court of public opinion.
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After the invasion, she took the minister's word at face value, when a 30-second search on the internet could have told her it was bunkum.
