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Meanings of hokum in English

Portuguese
disparate
Catalan
despropòsit
Spanish
disparate

A message that seems to convey no meaning.

disparate
Usage of hokum in English
1
The whole phenomenon still has the whiff of hokum, but we'll see.
Wired
2
Is it really necessary, or just a bit of horticultural hokum?
The Irish Times
3
Hollywood no doubt found this sort of hokum engaging, but not the passengers.
The Irish Times
4
Too much pseudo-scientific paranormal hokum is layered on with too hefty a trowel.
The Irish Times
5
Other than the bathetic speech-making, there's virtually no drama in this misbegotten hokum.
Reuters
6
If he does, we'll go right into some hokum drama stuff.
Merton of the Movies
7
Why, if you give 'em hokum they don't even demand acting.
Merton of the Movies
8
She knows, we know, everyone knows that's hokum on stilts.
The Guardian
9
Is past mistress of art of press agent hokum, herself.
The new yorker
10
It should be glutinous hokum, but it still works brilliantly.
The Irish Times
11
Now, to many, it seems deeply unfashionable, or a piece of cute religious hokum.
The Irish Times
12
They're the best jazz-and-hokum team on the Keith Circuit.
The Little Warrior
13
Honest, to hear him spring that sure-fire hokum you would have thought he believed it.
The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way"
14
Not one of those hokum merchants they got now.
Depraved
15
But the slick craftsmanship can't hide the fact that most of these mini-melodramas are unadulterated hokum.
Reuters
16
Even if it is melodramatic, even if it is 90% hokum, it is fun.
Rite of Passage
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