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词汇 hogwash
释义 hogwash
noun[ U ]
 informaluk /ˈhɒɡ.wɒʃ/ us /ˈhɑːɡ.wɑːʃ/
nonsense, or words that are intended to deceive: 废话,胡说八道,瞎话
His answer was pure hogwash.他的回答纯粹是废话。
Synonyms
bunk(NONSENSE)old-fashionedinformal
guffinformal
rotold-fashionedinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Nonsense
a crock (of shit)idiom
babble
balderdash
balls
baloney
blah
blather
blither
double-talk
doublespeak
drivel
eyewash
flapdoodle
moonshine
mumbo jumbo
nonsense
nonsensical
nonsensically
prattle
rhubarb

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hogwash | American Dictionary


hogwash
noun[ U ]
us/ˈhɑɡ·wɑʃ, ˈhɔɡ·wɔʃ/
nonsense, or words intended to deceive:
His answer was pure hogwash.

Examples of hogwash


hogwash
If, as utilitarians, we believe that their moral reasons are hogwash, we cannot plausibly say of them that they had moral reasons to expect disruption to occur.
I know that the nuances, subtleties and interpretations of which he spoke earlier are so much hogwash.
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The presidency is suggesting that the existing provisions are enough for measures against discrimination and that is a load of hogwash.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
He is peddling a cure for our economic ills, but the medicine that he is proposing is only one part medicine, and two parts hogwash.
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All this talk about capital in the public sector is so much hogwash.
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What hogwash those predictions have turned out to be.
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It follows therefore that any undertaking they give to the contrary is hogwash.
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That is a load of hogwash, rubbish and codswallop.
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To imply that freezing or getting rid of the escalator, as they do, would eradicate all the problems of the road haulage industry is hogwash.
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All this talk about improving accountability through the poll tax is hogwash.
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That is the biggest piece of hogwash of all time.
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This "social wage" is a lot of hogwash.
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I merely pause to speculate whether the word "hogwash" might be used.
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It is sheer hogwash and hypocrisy to pretend that the eventual £55 million required to operate the scheme will not be found at the expense of the public sector.
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We have heard a lot of hogwash about how people will hop out of the country unless we provide them with the tax system they want.
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