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Значения термина buncombe на английском

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Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

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Использование термина buncombe на английском
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And the speeches to the extent of about ninety per cent are pure buncombe.
The Hohenzollerns in America / With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and...
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But as for this theory that all wisdom resides in the people, it's buncombe.
A Far Country — Volume 3
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England never signed, because Castlereagh thought the whole thing buncombe.
The Story of Mankind
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That is sheer buncombe carefully fostered by a very efficient corps of Japanese propagandists.
The Pride of Palomar
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Webster did it supremely well; a smaller man would merely have made buncombe of it.
Initial Studies in American Letters
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How many men are called great because they succeed in talking buncombe and selling rubbish!
David Malcolm
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This gave demagogues in the legislature, anxious to make a reputation in buncombe, a great chance.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
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I never have and never will resort to 'buncombe' for the purpose of securing my own advancement.
Forty-Six Years in the Army
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From their experiences with the electors they had good reason to believe that this buncombe would go down.
Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics
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But in real life it's buncombe.
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
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And, spite of these well-known facts, northern buncombe never tired of assailing "the rebel sympathies" of England!
Four Years in Rebel Capitals / An Inside View of Life in the Sou...
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It is all buncombe.
Down the Rhine; Or, Young America in Germany
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I'm taking care of you now, and I'll see that you soon get home and to Grays', too; that's all buncombe.
A Daughter of the Land
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When he died he left a modest fortune made in spouting buncombe; and yet-The Professor held out a hand in appeal.
David Malcolm
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Tell me, McGraw-don'tlie to me-doyou feel the slightest desire to see me suffer, or is this-er-brotherly-love talk of yours plain buncombe?
The Long Chance
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It was the occasion of much political chat and buncombe, in which the Whig party and Jackson alike were, strangely enough, lauded to the skies.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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