hokum

I'm playing safe, even though this talk of danger may be hokum.

Hokum is a type of song in American blues music.

Then he did a lot of hokum - all the while I was standing on the back ledge.

With all this hokum in the papers, he's getting worried.

All this newspaper hokum would fade out after a few days.

"Will you buy it if I promise it's nothing but hokum?"

With all the hype and hokum, it is easy to become cynical.

Can you forgive me if this seems like a big bunch of hokum?

He realized that it had been a land of hokum and cheat.

I've seen so much hokum in my life that I go around with my eyes open.

But I'm not falling for a lot of hokum.

He said it would mean curtains if I didn't keep up the hokum.

When you come right down to it, they're nothing but ground-out hokum.

That said, there are plenty of very learned physicists who call "hokum" on the whole thing.

I'm sticking with it, but only because it's entertaining hokum - which is no bad thing.

"Do you expect me to believe all that hokum?"

The kids knew it, and saw adults buying in to the hokum."

"I heard you hand the hokum to the judge.

"Those file cabinets are the hokum that goes with the place.

He paused and looked at me, as if trying to gauge what kind of impression this hokum was making.

Such hokum grew worse as the time for toasts arrived.

It is perhaps this performance which gave it its hokum reputation.

They used to try to pin rackets on me - but never any hokum like this.

The movie is pure hokum, but at least it spins out a yarn.

So have Cooper's tales, but only in the category of enjoyable hokum.