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单词 hogwash
释义
hogwash
noun[U]
informal
uk
/ˈhɒɡ.wɒʃ/us
/ˈhɑːɡ.wɑːʃ/
nonsense, or words that areintendedtodeceive:
废话，胡说八道，瞎话
Hisanswerwaspurehogwash.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
  • bilge
  • blah
  • blather
  • blither
  • double-talk
  • doublespeak
  • drivel
  • eyewash
  • flapdoodle
  • moonshine
  • mumbo jumbo
  • nonsense
  • nonsensical
  • piffle
  • rhubarb
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
(Definition ofhogwashfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

hogwash| American Dictionary

hogwash
noun[U]
us
/ˈhɑɡ·wɑʃ,ˈhɔɡ·wɔʃ/
nonsense, or wordsintendedtodeceive:
Hisanswerwaspurehogwash.
(Definition ofhogwashfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhogwash

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If, as utilitarians, we believe that their moral reasons arehogwash, we cannot plausibly say of them that they had moral reasons to expect disruption to occur.
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I know that the nuances, subtleties and interpretations of which he spoke earlier are so muchhogwash.
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The presidency is suggesting that the existing provisions are enough for measures against discrimination and that is a load ofhogwash.
FromEuroparl 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 partshogwash.
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All this talk about capital in the public sector is so muchhogwash.
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Whathogwashthose predictions have turned out to be.
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It follows therefore that any undertaking they give to the contrary ishogwash.
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That is a load ofhogwash, 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 ishogwash.
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All this talk about improving accountability through the poll tax ishogwash.
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That is the biggest piece ofhogwashof all time.
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This "social wage" is a lot ofhogwash.
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I merely pause to speculate whether the word "hogwash" might be used.
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It is sheerhogwashand 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 ofhogwashabout how people will hop out of the country unless we provide them with the tax system they want.
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