1. But one was left wondering at the decision to commit time, money and talent to this dingy piece of hokum.

2. Earnestly ersatz down to every spangle, dance move, plot turn, and line of hokum dialogue, Burlesque is a showbiz pic for these American Idol times — …

3. Buzzword - stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition cant hokum , meaninglessness , nonsense , nonsensicality , bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning

4. If you're looking for a mash-up of world religions, New Age hokum, far-right nationalism, and infrastructure spending, then Japanese Cult Happy Science is for you

5. Baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk- a message that seems to convey no meaning jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

6. Absurdity: 1 n a ludicrous folly “the crowd laughed at the Absurdity of the clown's behavior” Synonyms: fatuity , fatuousness , silliness Type of: folly , foolishness , unwiseness the trait of acting stupidly or rashly n a message whose content is at variance with reason Synonyms: absurdness , ridiculousness Type of: bunk , hokum ,

7. On the other hand, in the July 24, 2005, issue of The New York Times Book Review, the critic and fiction writer Walter Kirn suggests that the novel's plot is "sinister high hokum", but writes admiringly of the prose, describing the author as "a whiz with the joystick, a master-level gamer who changes screens and situations every few pages".