How to Use hogwash in a Sentence

hogwash

noun

• You wouldn't believe the hogwash he was spouting at us.
• But Holbert, who has been on council in the past, said that’s hogwash.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 8 Feb. 2021
• Danny Spell thinks that the idea that a robot will be driving his 18-wheeler one of these days is hogwash.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2017
• But that’s hogwash, because a brisket by any other color would taste as good.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 6 July 2021
• But the notion that the shift is causing a retirement crisis is hogwash.
  — Josh B. McGee, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
• The problem: the technology at this point appears to be hogwash.
  — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2019
• The Yesha Rabbinical Council has approved the swine brigade, but critics dismiss the idea as hogwash.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2003
• There was no more truth in any of those assertions than there is in the hogwash and hearsay tossed about by the anti-vaccinationists of 2021.
  — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2021
• And are we supposed to sit back and accept that a certain amount of anti-democracy hogwash will come with each vote?
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• Either way, the idea that low-income students can’t cut it at prestigious colleges appears to be hogwash.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
• But children look up to these athletes and take their word as truth, so more and more athletes voicing this B.S. belief means more and more minds corrupted with this total hogwash.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• The prosecution, meanwhile, has long scoffed at all of Kilpatrick's arguments, saying his claim that his lawyer hurt his case is hogwash.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2017
• A points system would yield a pool of immigrants that is extremely diverse in terms of color and creed, and to suggest otherwise is hogwash.
  — Reihan Salam, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
• The contention that this state can’t afford free community college is hogwash.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• That would be driven home by a subsequent blizzard of presidential lies and by enablers like Spicer, who would then go out and insist, with a straight face, that the president's hogwash was true.
  — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Sep. 2017
• Some motorcycle enthusiasts think the whole idea of trying to shush biker noise is hogwash.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2022
• Music users, on the other hand, think that full-works licensing would make the very complicated licensing process much easier -- and say that any fears that the practice will drive down rates is hogwash.
  — Ed Christman, Billboard, 18 July 2017
• Who might get assigned to review my manuscript— someone with a sympathetic ear or someone who thought my research was so much hogwash?
  — Maria Konnikova, Wired, 23 June 2020
• Mr Trump’s tweets plainly show this to be hogwash, argue the Europeans; he is motivated by pure protectionism.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• In a more meaningful sense, however, Netanyahu’s statement is hogwash.
  — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
• According to Google’s usage graph, hogwash has become increasingly popular in the last 50 years.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• Next, Hu plans to test brain activation patterns in people given time to practice their lies to see if this measure can reliably discern truthful words from prepared hogwash.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2013
• Nixon, who also blasted the investigation about him as partisan hogwash, learned that sometimes, a president can turn out to be his own worst enemy.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 15 May 2017
• Perhaps this bulletin-board material will incite players and coaches alike to prove your paper’s most disagreeable writer is full of hogwash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• But the common argument that U.S. troops could have produced different Iraqi political outcomes is hogwash.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Of course, to anyone steeped in the history of this organization, soft-pedaling any statement on playoff expansion is complete hogwash.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
• Most serious scientists and researchers on aging consider the unorthodox field of cryonics just science fiction or hogwash.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 July 2019
• Some appeals are being made to Trump, partly turning on assertions that release of some of the outstanding records could compromise current intelligence methods and still-living sources (the notion that everybody relevant is dead is hogwash).
  — James Warren, The Hive, 23 Oct. 2017
• The Coronado Unified School District has featured squabbling over students who want their schools to be anti-racist, and community members who dismiss such actions as critical race theory hogwash.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Also, please know that some pundits naively believe that self-driving cars will never get into car crashes and will apparently be crash-free, which is entirely unmitigated hogwash, see my ardent rejoinder at this link here).
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024