How To Use Hooey In A Sentence
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Dr. Peter Hurd initially thought the idea was ‘a pile of hooey,’ but he changed his mind when he saw the data.
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Now, in high school I would have thought this was hooey, for a lot of reasons.
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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.
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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.
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I'd have to classify both those reasons as, well, hooey.
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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
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To paraphrase Garrison Keillor, I used to think that literary awards were a bunch of hooey.
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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
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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
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pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
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Forget all this hooey surrounding so-called political correctness.
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Everything except the first three paragraphs is total hooey.
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Any objections to Kagan based on her opposition to DADT are phooey.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Kagan I Presume?
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Say phooey to the introduction of the euro to Europe from January 1 at your peril - particularly if you have a tourism-related business in York or North Yorkshire.
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Well phooey - that's still an outrageous price.
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Argument rages, but most of it is self-serving phooey.
Yet again, a chance to rein in the bankers has been squandered | Will Hutton
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It may be a bunch of hooey, but it sure is fun hooey.
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Some people say that American kids are dumber, but I say "Phooey!" As a Grandparent, I personally know that our children today are just as capable of excelling as any students in the past.
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Maybe I don’t get out enough, but all of that end times hooey is far removed from any point that I was trying to make.
Think Progress » Sen. Inhofe: ‘Gore Is Full of Crap,’ ‘All Recent Science…Confirms This Thing Is A Hoax’
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As for the hooey, I’m not keen on Ideas in Art — but yoicks! eXistenz was levels above 1999′s The Matrix in that department.
“I find this disgusting . . . | clusterflock
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In practice, this is a load of hooey; one company is buying the other.
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An amusing quote: ‘… many Koreans are answering [with] a defiant phooey.’
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That's just so much hooey, but then fiction always sells better than nonfiction, doesn't it?
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Seriously, it has to be mind-bendingly frustrating to have to defend some of this nonsensical hooey.
Bob Cesca: When in Doubt, They Beat Up Women
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Musselman is the son of the late Bill Musselman, who once coached Cleveland and Minnesota and gained a reputation as a man who wouldn't tolerate any hooey.
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We've had it with what Truman would have called the hooey of politics -- the creation of candidates and personality persona by ghost writers, spin doctors, Madison Avenue experts and so forth.
Truman
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My orthopedist just laughs and says that's hooey.
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While I would agree with the Governor that talk of "post-racialism" is hooey, that is about the only thing in his statement that I can agree with.
Keli Goff: Why Gov. Paterson is Right: Race Will Cost Him His Job
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One final note: to those of you who piece together that Dar and Tal are brothers, and that would make Dar and Kiri cousins, I say phooey.
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By the way, the index in The Complete Peanuts does list all occurrences of the word "phooey" and its variant, "fooey".
Archive 2005-05-08
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That's phooey to most ordinary investors, who want to see their wealth expand in absolute terms and not simply get poorer slower than their neighbors.
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It's all phooey, of course, another case of grown-ups lying to kids for sentimental reasons.
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Furthermore, this is a plan that canât go wrong, because if it turns out the whole IQ link to race is a bunch of hooey, which is not unlikely, the fact remains there are lots of African American women who canât find reliable mates and likewise lots of Chinese men whose potential wives were aborted.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
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But that just sounds like hooey to most players.
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All that Republican non-sense about home ownership improving communities, phooey.
Discourse.net: University of Miami Law School Announces Foreclosure Defense Fellowships
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The poet W. H. Auden derided “Lip-smacking Imps of mawk and hooey,” and the feminist author Germaine Greer in her 1970 Female Eunuch rescued equestrian interests of women from psychological leers with “The horse between a girl’s legs is supposed to be a gigantic penis.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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There has been much hand-wringing over the proliferation of home runs in the last few years, but here at TSN, we say phooey!
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And, phooey to the woman on the bus who quipped, I had a dress just like that in tenth grade!
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Now you might say phooey - punctuality is one thing, who cares about the other factors.
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And phooey on Ebay for even thinking it was okay to sell ARCs!
Kateelliott: Contest Winner and Apologies
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Look, if I want to overemote, I'll do it myself, watching this irritatingly self-aggrandizing hooey.
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The test would be laughed out of the public education realm as hooey but survives in the corporate realm because businesses don't speak educationese and do not know they're being hoodwinked.
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Home sweet home, phooey: Indiana looks like a lock for the top seed in the East.
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I say phooey since tools don't make the Witch; a crafty Witch makes her own tools.
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Grab a hankie, because the stench of hooey is going to get very strong, very fast.
Captains Hillstrand, Hillstrand & Hansen return to "Deadliest Catch," shocking no one
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As it would be for a parson to step up to the pulpit one Sunday, look hard at his congregation, and with a roguish grin announce, "It's all a load of hooey!
Rush Limbaugh tries to horn in on my vacation
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They were from all over the map -- "complete hooey" from _Minority Report_, "buncombe" from _The New Republic_, "as truthful as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" from an article on pedagogy in the _Sun_.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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But that's all hooey, say new-style teachers such as Zeer.
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Who knew that not having any spine to oppose blatantly bad Bush II SCOTUS appointments (at least we will hear no more old-school 'activist judge' hooey, which is something I guess) would turn out so badly for the incompetent Dems?
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Some object to this new suit of clothes for the Rotunda, but I say phooey.
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So forgive me if I say phooey to the fashionable PR twaddle which claims that casinos can regenerate our urban landscape.
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Most readers already know that the official statistics are a pile of hooey, routinely manipulated to demonstrate an economic fantasy that doesn't really exist.
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It was his task to persuade us that the Big Bang was a lot of hooey.
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And all that hooey about what an honor it is to be nominated does not wash.
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So forgive me if I say phooey to the fashionable PR twaddle which claims that casinos can regenerate our urban landscape.
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I'm here to tell you that this is a bunch of hooey.
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Don't ask me why I called him/her/it ‘Nemesis,’ I just think it's a cool-sounding name, so if you don't like it, phooey.
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It doesn't really matter if this is correct or a load of old hooey because it gives me the chance to talk about the divine Jane Lynch.
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That's absolute hooey, as has been widely reported in the media.
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It's just more hooey from the nattering nabobs of negativity.
Republicans react to jobless report
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She thought that all that stuff she heard about guys and their cars was just a bunch of hooey but now she wondered if there wasn't some validity in those claims.
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It was an ape, not a monkey. deathmetalhero awesome! mangoshakes yeah i also love Routh. he's actually a draw for me if he'd get some meaty movie roles. also, i dig the cgi costume too. though i wonder if it'll be half cgi with the mo-cap suit acting as a "base". and phooey i thought it'd be cool if nathan fillion got the martin jordan role. that'd be funny.
Casting Notes: Brandon Routh in The Walking Dead, Jon Tenney in Green Lantern, Unknowns in Todd Phillips/Joel Silver’s Mystery Comedy Project X | /Film
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Added Browne: ‘They are just talking a lot of phooey.’
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Collective power and student support seemed like a lot of hooey to me.
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On the other hand, oh phooey … middle eastern politics drive us all mad …. kactuz
Global Voices in English » Afganistan: Is Iran Supporting the Taliban?
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Right now there are probably a few people saying ‘but people will steal our programmes - there must be copy protection’, to which I say phooey!
