Example sentences for: hokum

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

  • "How much melodramatic hokum can viewers take?"

  • They have to contend with so much Hollywood hokum that they're driven to overuse of overwrought literary pyrotechnics and banal humor.

  • That's a lot of newspaper hokum.

  • In Britain, Rupert Murdoch's News International puts politicians on alert, whether by 'outing' [British Agriculture Secretary] Nick Brown in the News of the World or dishing the dirt on Robin Cook in the Sunday Times . In the US, the Murdoch-owned New York Post runs (later disproved) hokum about a Bill Clinton love-child, as if doing its bit to drive the president from office."

  • But the case for tilting public policy in favor of 'small business' is based on logical fallacies and lobbyists' hokum."


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