Marianne Williamson

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.

American Author

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

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.

Amy Adams

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.

American Actress

Yoko Ono

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.

American Artist

Howard Rheingold

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.

American Critic

Kevin Kwan

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

Singaporean Novelist

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Welsh Actor

Holly Near

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

American Musician

Vladimir Nabokov

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

American Novelist

Ron Johnson

American

Hogwash is casual; not used in formal writing or serious discussions.

Informal Use

Indicates strong rejection of an idea or statement.

Strong Dismissal

Combine with 'pure' or 'complete' to stress disbelief.

Extra Emphasis

Refers to food waste given to pigs, now less common.

Historical Context

Evokes life on a farm, dealing with animals and agriculture.

Rural Imagery

Though archaic, it can still appear in period pieces or historical contexts.

Archaic Present

 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.

Questions No One Knows...

 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.

Hogwash

Nonsense, something that is not true or realistic.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Liquid food for pigs; pigswill.

Informal Use

Strong Dismissal

Extra Emphasis

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