hokum

How To Use hokum In A Sentence

• A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
• In this case, moving the funny-page content to a page formerly devoted to the news just might notch up the credulity paid to what would normally be considered standard WSH editorial right wing "hokum," to borrow a word from Li'l Abner's mammy, Pansy. Printing: Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section
• For some of today's filmgoers, it's outdated hokum; for others, it's one of the all-time greatest love stories on film.
• These episodes do have messages, but they're buried under so much '60s television action series hokum that they are difficult to find and are rendered almost meaningless.
• All that talk is just a bunch of hokum.
• There's even a book called Snake Oil Science, written by a biostatistician and senior Research Methodologist at the University of Maryland, that tells us why alternative and complementary medicine lies somewhere between bunko and hokum. Lee Schneider: Snake Oil Medicine
• To date, yes: we've peddled tartan schlock in the form of hokum Burns Night suppers to generations of tourists so we can't blame them for finding novelty in the trappings of the occasion.
• You want conclusive proof that this study is hokum? The Sun
• Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum.
• The plot and characterizations have been whittled into the barest of Hollywood hokum.