All hokum synonyms

noun hokum

• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• banality — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
• bromide — Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
• platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
• sweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
• confectionery — Confectionery is sweets and chocolates.
• jawbreaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
• sweetmeat — a sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry.
• confit — Confit is meat such as goose or duck which has been cooked and preserved in its own fat.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• trickiness — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• trumpery — something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
• circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
• legerdemain — sleight of hand.
• treason — the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
• blarney — Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• cozenage — the practice of cozening.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• approbation — Approbation is approval of something or agreement to it.
• stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
• plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.