hooey

[ UK /hˈuːi/ ]
[ US /ˈhui/ ]
NOUN
  1. senseless talk
    don't give me that stuff
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How To Use hooey In A Sentence

  • Dr. Peter Hurd initially thought the idea was ‘a pile of hooey,’ but he changed his mind when he saw the data.
  • Now, in high school I would have thought this was hooey, for a lot of reasons.
  • Say phooey to all your gloating girlfriends who spend V-day with any old bloke just because they are too insecure to make it on their own.
  • But BA's passengers said phooey to both sides, since they are the ones who wound up having to spend a weekend in Terminal 1.
  • I'd have to classify both those reasons as, well, hooey.
  • As much as baseball fans and followers enjoy invoking the past and speaking in mystical language about the sport, as good as that syrupy metaphor sounds when Ken Burns sets it to black-and-white photography, most of it is hooey in the here and now. Spare Us the Talk About the Rangers
  • To paraphrase Garrison Keillor, I used to think that literary awards were a bunch of hooey.
  • That, of course, was so much hooey, a fact that is now becoming plian as a pikestaff as we discover that the economy has not been tuned to withstand the hard times. Vultures Gather: They Know and Await The End
  • I only bring it up because I keep coming across panels in comic books and comic strips that use the word "phooey" that I can't help but think "wow, that would have been good to use on a band flyer. Archive 2005-05-08
  • pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
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