How to Use hokum in a Sentence

hokum

noun

• Everyone knows his story is pure hokum.
• His new film is yet another piece of Hollywood hokum.
• This isn’t some kind of health food store hippie hokum.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2020
• When the pre-show finally began, so did the hokum that would define the rest of the night.
  — Aisha Harris, Slate Magazine, 24 Aug. 2017
• The film has a lot going for it, alongside a certain amount of hokum.
  — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2018
• Is the hokum a bit thick even in the context of a showmanship special?
  — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
• With hokum such as this, my credulity can be counted on.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Into this world of darkness and folk hokum, in 1635, was born Francis Willughby.
  — David Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2018
• President Biden is in part a hostage to his own campaign mythology — the blue-collar guy from Scranton — and all the hokum that goes along with it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 June 2021
• The College Football Playoff is pure hokum, but at least its nonsense is hysterical at the same time.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 13 Nov. 2019
• His teachings were simplistic, filled with hokum, like a 15-year-old's diary entry.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• This is hokum, a product of a morbidly amusing photo taken of Dillinger while his body was on display at the Chicago morgue.
  — Neal Taflinger, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2017
• Downtrodden Democrats will need to come to grips with the reality that vast swaths of the country like or, at least, accept the hokum and hatred that Trump has been peddling.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
• But his true gift was providing the smoke from a campfire consecrated by holistic hokum and complex sentence structure.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• Set in the art world of the early 20th century, the episode neatly epitomizes the way this show dresses up grotesque supernatural hokum in period couture.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 26 Oct. 2022
• Those final 30 or so seconds do a lot of work to cover up what is otherwise a mostly engaging piece of hokum, a grim kidnapping tale that makes a silly hash of psychology.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 19 Jan. 2017
• The appetite for such hokum and narrowness of the judgments against Jones, who falsely claimed that the 2012 elementary school shootings were a hoax and that grieving parents were actors, virtually ensure a ready supply, experts say.
  — David Bauder, Chron, 16 Oct. 2022
• The story of Abner Doubleday inventing baseball in Cooperstown has long been dismissed as hokum.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• Greekman’s feels subtly evocative without any hokum and serves uplifting food that meshes with the California growing seasons.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021
• Yet the American space-industrial complex is sustained by Hollywood hokum.
  — David Beers, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• Martin died earlier this year, but his zany approach to life, which included abstaining from tea and water in favor of beer, is captured in How to Live Forever, a new documentary that dips into philosophy, science and hokum.
  — Matthew Shechmeister, WIRED, 7 July 2011
• This business of saving for future generations is hokum and has become a platitudinous, self-righteous argument legislators use to further their own agendas.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 29 June 2017
• And, of course, Goop embraces the long-standing hokum known as homeopathy, which essentially claims ritualized dilutions of poisons can cure disease and anthropomorphic water molecules can remember how to heal you.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024