Hogwash
noun
Nonsense, something that is not true or realistic.
The idea that this plan can work is pure hogwash.
Often appears as...
- pure hogwash
- that's hogwash
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Liquid food for pigs; pigswill.
He was responsible for feeding the pigs with hogwash.
noun
Nonsense, something that is not true or realistic.
The idea that this plan can work is pure hogwash.
Often appears as...
- pure hogwash
- that's hogwash
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Liquid food for pigs; pigswill.
He was responsible for feeding the pigs with hogwash.
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Use
Hogwash is casual; not used in formal writing or serious discussions.
He said I cheated, which is hogwash!
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Dismissal
Indicates strong rejection of an idea or statement.
Her accusations against the team are hogwash!
Pro Tip 3/3Extra Emphasis
Combine with 'pure' or 'complete' to stress disbelief.
Saying that movie was good is complete hogwash.
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Use
Hogwash is casual; not used in formal writing or serious discussions.
He said I cheated, which is hogwash!
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Dismissal
Indicates strong rejection of an idea or statement.
Her accusations against the team are hogwash!
Pro Tip 3/3Extra Emphasis
Combine with 'pure' or 'complete' to stress disbelief.
Saying that movie was good is complete hogwash.
Pro Tip 1/3Informal Use
Hogwash is casual; not used in formal writing or serious discussions.
He said I cheated, which is hogwash!
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Dismissal
Indicates strong rejection of an idea or statement.
Her accusations against the team are hogwash!
Pro Tip 3/3Extra Emphasis
Combine with 'pure' or 'complete' to stress disbelief.
Saying that movie was good is complete hogwash.
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and many of these universes would actually be very like the world we're in, would include multiple copies of you. In one such universe, you'd graduate with honors and marry the person of your dreams, and in another, not so much. Well, there are still some scientists who would say, hogwash.
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Marvin Minsky: Health,...
in the present state of knowledge, which is absolute hogwash, maybe by just a few hundred genes. What I think is that the gene counters don't know what they're doing yet. And whatever you do, don't read anything about genetics that's published within your lifetime, or something.
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Questions No One Knows...
and many of these universes would actually be very like the world we're in, would include multiple copies of you. In one such universe, you'd graduate with honors and marry the person of your dreams, and in another, not so much. Well, there are still some scientists who would say, hogwash.
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Marvin Minsky: Health,...
in the present state of knowledge, which is absolute hogwash, maybe by just a few hundred genes. What I think is that the gene counters don't know what they're doing yet. And whatever you do, don't read anything about genetics that's published within your lifetime, or something.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
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Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
American Author
For years we've been told by secretive power hoarders we need to compromise some of our hot freedom for security. Civil Libertarians have always known that hogwash claim was stinkier than week old trout jam, and we have warned about compromising liberty in the name of safety.
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Amy Adams
American Actress
Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.
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Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.
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Anthony Hopkins
Welsh Actor
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
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Holly Near
American Musician
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
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Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Ron Johnson
American
Career politicians manufacture hogwash.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
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Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
American Author
For years we've been told by secretive power hoarders we need to compromise some of our hot freedom for security. Civil Libertarians have always known that hogwash claim was stinkier than week old trout jam, and we have warned about compromising liberty in the name of safety.
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Amy Adams
American Actress
Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
Quote examples
Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.
Quote examples
Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.
Quote examples
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh Actor
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Quote examples
Holly Near
American Musician
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
Quote examples
Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Ron Johnson
American
Career politicians manufacture hogwash.
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