Example sentences for: buncombe

How can you use “buncombe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Much that was said about Japanese management style in the 1980s--with its supposed Zen focus and greater sense of process than outcome--was pure buncombe.

  • Synonyms for truth telling are formal and dull: candor , honesty , veridity . Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .

  • Bunk is a shortening of bunkum, itself a respelling for Buncomber County, North Carolina, whose congressional representative once remarked that he was “only talking for Buncombe.”


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