bunkum
Worthless hot air
Bunkum is nonsense or empty talk, especially the kind politicians produce—insincere speechmaking meant to please constituents rather than advance debate.
The word comes from Buncombe County, North Carolina, whose congressman famously insisted on giving a pointless speech "for Buncombe." That's pure bunkum.
Also spelled buncombe.
Senseless talk or writing
- hogwashFoolish or untrue talk
- poppycockFoolish or meaningless talk
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
- malarkeyInsincere foolish talk
drivel · baloney · flapdoodle · codswallop · claptrap · piffle · tommyrot · humbug
Discarded waste material
False talk or pretense
- shamFraudulent imitation
- pretenseDeceptive outward show
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
deception · fabrication · fakery · imposture · charlatan · trickery · chicanery · dupery
Pretentious hollow language
- grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language
- bravadoPretense of fearlessness
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- braggadocioVain, empty self-promotion
rodomontade · hot air · blowhard · windbag · swagger · boastfulness · vainglory · pomposity
Art of persuasive language
- demagogueryManipulative political rhetoric
- empty promisesInsincere verbal commitments
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- doublespeakDeliberately misleading language
propaganda · electioneering · stump speech · glad-handing · politicking · pandering · sloganeering · talking points
balderdash
Senseless talk or writing
malarkey · drivel · baloney · flapdoodle · codswallop · claptrap · piffle · tommyrot · humbug · bosh
garbage
Discarded waste material
tripe · bilge · refuse · dross · offal · swill · dregs · muck · rot · waste
humbug
False talk or pretense
hoax · deception · fabrication · fakery · imposture · charlatan · trickery · chicanery · dupery · flimflam
bombast
Pretentious hollow language
- grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language
- bravadoPretense of fearlessness
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
braggadocio · rodomontade · hot air · blowhard · windbag · swagger · boastfulness · vainglory · pomposity · gasconade
rhetoric
Art of persuasive language
- demagogueryManipulative political rhetoric
- empty promisesInsincere verbal commitments
- spinRapid rotation around axis
doublespeak · propaganda · electioneering · stump speech · glad-handing · politicking · pandering · sloganeering · talking points · soundbite
- American slangbamboozle, bogus, conniption, discombobulate, doozy
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
- nonsensenonsense, absurd, gibberish, gobbledegook, gobbledygook
- Whimsy Wordsgobbledygook, gibberish, mumbo jumbo, hogwash, balderdash
- Bunkbalderdash, baloney, bosh, bunk, claptrap
- British slangblag, bloke, bodge, blagger, bobby
bunkumtruth
Accordance with reality
fact · reality · authenticity · accuracy · actuality
bunkumsense
Perception or judgment
wisdom · reason · rationality · reasonableness · sensibleness
bunkumsubstance
Physical material with mass
sincerity · straight talk · candor · honesty · forthrightness
- underground bunkerReinforced subterranean refuge
- bunker downShelter in place protectively
- nuclear bunkerRadiation-proof underground refuge
- bunker mentalityExtreme collective defensiveness
- Bunker Hill1775 Massachusetts engagement
- bunker shotGolf stroke from sand
bunker, debunk, bunking, debunking, debunker, debunked, debunks, debunkers