Examples of 'hokum' in a sentence
Meaning of "hokum"
hokum (noun): Nonsensical or irrelevant information, often used to deceive or mislead
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- (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
- (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.
- A film, television programme, theater production, etc., containing excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material.
- A genre of blues song or music, often characterized by sexual innuendos or satire.
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All the hokum must be thrown out.
There is some drawings and a lot of hokum.
Hokum bhai this is not good thing.
And the occult stuff is just hokum.
Religious hokum against sponge bath.
The social sciences are largely hokum.
This sort of naive hokum was passé.
I regard claims to the contrary as hokum.
Or whatever that hokum shit was.
Especially based on psychic hokum.
Some are hokum and others may have some real benefit.
Meditation is nothing but hokum.
Sounds like hokum to me.
You have made me believe that for all of the hokum.
The hokum can wear you down worse than the tsunami.
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But they are mostly hokum.
Hokum is a type of song in American blues music.
It is perhaps this performance which gave it its hokum reputation.
This is no hokum medicine Graviola has very real and very proven healing properties.
But it may well be hokum.
Hokum brother I know and you give me one months time.
That was a lot of hokum.
The Hokum is the latest combat helicopter of the Russian Armed Forces.
I thought you said you did not believe in that fairy tales and hokum stuff.
Well, that hokum found traces of methylbenzene at the scene.
Wild America may not be complete hokum.
Is the hokum a bit thick even in the context of a showmanship special?
First time I ever saw hokum come true.
This hokum only works on weak-minded suckers like you.
It was sometimes called Hokum Blues.
Hokum bhai this is not good thing . Get out!
In the rural south in particular, hokum held on.
The story… is hokum, but it's good hokum and Joan breathes life into her characterization.
Doctor / patient privilege and all that hokum.
That may seem like hokum and new-age thinking.
It 's by the numbers religious hokum pokum.
And hokum stuff. Shoo! I thought you said you didnht believe in that fairy tales.
You are not going for that supernatural hokum of his?
You're about to see Hokum Slocombe Mrs. Slocombe, in a death-defying dive.
They claim to use heuristic algorithms, but it may well be hokum.
I would like you to be there. Religious hokum against sponge bath.
Really, we never think about what we are, and whatsoever we think is just hokum.
What kind of plastic hokum is this?
However, many of these products have been tested and proven to be hokum.
What sort of hokum is this?
This is what you take away from the school-prayer hokum.
It was his hokum side!
My boy 's worse now than he was after you pulled your little hokum hustle.
Mr. Jones, ten pages of autobiographical hokum will not save you.
As usual, the theatre has lavished a lot of wealth and talent on this hokum.
