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Meanings of hogwash in English

Catalan
poca-soltada
Spanish
disparate

Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

poca-soltada
Usage of hogwash in English
1
They said they could not drink the tea; that it was hogwash.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2
Both Mary and Bill said this cabal thing of yours is hogwash.
The Kingmaker
3
I was run out of my job on this sort of hogwash.
Union Atlantic
4
He grabbed the edge of his seat and growled, That's hogwash, Wiley.
The capitol game
5
JM: The belief that things like match-fixing are new is hogwash.
The Guardian
6
I thought what he said was hogwash and the reasoning flawed.
Radio NZ
7
Well, go ahead with the boys and dope out your hogwash.
Merton of the Movies
8
All this hogwash about self expression, permissiveness, development patterns, emotional security.
The new yorker
9
One must have the taste of a pig to eat hogwash like that!
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
10
Wot's the good of your ladlin' out that hogwash about huntin'?
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
11
Later, another doctor said that was hogwash, that the boy had von Willebrand disease.
The marrowbone marble company
12
Are we meant to take all this mystical hogwash seriously?
The Irish Times
13
It's all hogwash and is also rooted in professional jealousy.
The Guardian
14
That's the sort of damned hogwash you feed to green troops, not to veterans.
Greener Than You Think
15
As always, these rumors could be dead-on or total hogwash.
Wired
16
The DA representative believes this "miscommunication" is actually a bunch of hogwash.
The South African
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