Sentence examples for the hogwash from inspiring English sources
noun
Foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
Sorry, Steve, but the hogwash won't go away.
Let's politely call them three dodgy propositions, and avoid mixing too much snake oil with the hogwash.
But in the end, Lincoln himself rises untarnished, stove-pipe hat intact, from all the hogwash that is talked about him.
Reprints Related items Zimbabwe's good example: Hot seatsMay 17th 2007 Zimbabwe: The hogwash of quiet diplomacyApr 4th 2007Those who stay face the increasingly arbitrary power of the police and militias.
And there is talk within the newly-formed Arab Quartet of moderate states (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) that Syria should be included, partly to detach it from its ally, Iran.In this section A failed state that threatens the region The hogwash of quiet diplomacy Has he got away with it?
THE HOGWASH CAN SMELL SWEET AWARD To Wall Street's Mr. Right, Ravi Suria, the convertible bond analyst at Lehman Brothers who halfway through the year, when Amazon's stock was still flying high at $42, had the temerity to question the company's prospects for profitability.
But while Abbott dismisses the connection between the climate change and the fires as "hogwash", the Australian Academy of Sciences says there "a clear observed association between extreme heat and catastrophic bushfires". 5.
Professor John DiIulio Jr zealously warned that juvenile crime would sweep the nation, even though his analysis was debunked at the time (the Los Angeles Times called the study "hogwash").
A senior Pakistani security official reached by telephone called the insinuation "hogwash" and said that the Afghan government always tried to blame the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's military spy agency.
Protecting women is always the stated rationale for new restrictions on abortion, even when the rationale is — as in Iowa, and as in the Oklahoma case before the Supreme Court — hogwash.
While the scientific hogwash being advanced in the name of religion is so patently absurd that it doesn't deserve a rebuttal, the view that the modern environmentalism movement is under attack by religion should be discredited before it rises to the level of urban myth.
