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单词 hokum
释义
hokumho‧kum /ˈhəʊkəm $ ˈhoʊ-/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhokum
Origin:
1900-2000 Probably from hocus-pocus + bunkum
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Jackson said the entire plan was hokum.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But one was left wondering at the decision to commit time, money and talent to this dingy piece of hokum.
  • Cowboys, trail dust and great six-stringed hokum converge on Tucson this week with the ninth-annual Western Music Festival.
  • Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum.
  • One could tolerate this kind of hokum, if only the movie had some fun with it.
  • Similarly the rise of Existentialism in the 1950s made an interest in matters spiritual seem like so much unfashionable hokum.
  • The movie is nonstop, state-of-the-art, over-the-top Hollywood hokum.
informal something that seems true or impressive but that is wrong or not sincere:  All that talk is just a bunch of hokum.
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