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hooey
noun
Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).
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Wouldn't it be better to have just a few debates later on, as Lincoln and Douglas did in the late summer of 1858 This sort of hooey is par for the course in political campaigns, of course.
As for the idea that southern Europeans have a greater natural propensity to cheat on their taxes than virtuous northern types, that looks like hooey.
But last night, David dismissed speculation about tensions between them as "hooey and nonsense".
Thanks for the chat… my friend recommend your piece but haven't picked up latest NY yet… :) ADAM GOPNIK: Yes, I think that is his view — but I should add that most hard-nosed scientists I spoke to think that people domesticated wolves into dogs by force of will, and that all the proto-dog, drifting wolf stuff is just imaginary hooey.
(Today, this hooey has gone online: Like me! Follow me!) Ailes met Limbaugh in 1991.
The hundred-million fisure in in all likelihood a lot of hooey.
But it's hooey worth looking at, for reasons having nothing to do with the ad.
That figure, as Politifact showed this week, is hooey.
Despite the appealing locations, tangy dialogue, and intense, sincere performances (John Cothran is robust as R.L., a backwoods minister), this heady rural stew of violence, race, lust, and religion strains after Faulknerian depth but is mostly Southern-fried hooey.
As he put it in his eulogy for Mario, "Over the years, the press would love to give their dime-store psychoanalysis of our quote-unquote 'complex' father-and-son relationship, which was all a lot of hooey".
Brinkley suspects this boot-camp business is hooey, and I take the same view of Ross's hoofing it all the way to Paris.
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