Synonyms of hogwash

hogwash

noun

ˈhȯg-ˌwȯsh 

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

the librarian told us a lot of hogwash about how you can go to jail for having overdue books

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• garbage
• nuts
• rubbish
• blah
• stupidity
• silliness
• drool
• baloney
• poppycock
• bunk
• claptrap
• hooey
• bunkum
• balderdash
• hokum
• twaddle
• foolishness
• guff
• boloney
• malarky
• muck
• jazz
• piffle
• blah-blah
• craziness
• trash
• falderal
• codswallop
• crock
• malarkey
• tosh
• buncombe
• beans
• insanity
• flapdoodle
• tommyrot
• humbuggery
• trumpery
• bull
• rot
• folderol
• bilge
• madness
• blather
• blither
• drivel
• fudge
• punk
• fiddlesticks
• blatherskite
• bosh
• crapola
• tarradiddle
• absurdity
• fiddle
• blarney
• humbug
• horsefeathers
• folly
• taradiddle
• hokeypokey
• fiddle-faddle
• absurdness
• applesauce
• hoodoo
• nerts
• idiocy
• senselessness
• moonshine
• flannel
• slush
• tomfoolery
• kookiness
• foolery
• inanity
• lunacy
• imbecility
• asininity
• greek
• hocus-pocus
• rigamarole
• rigmarole
• gas
• fatuity
• witlessness
• inaneness
• monkey business
• double-talk
• shenanigan(s)
• hot air
• hoity-toity
• monkeyshine(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• sense
• common sense
• reasonability
• sensibleness
• horse sense
• wisdom
• judgment
• judgement
• levelheadedness
• discernment

Examples of hogwash in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Film music historians agree that this is hogwash. —Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021

Which is pure hogwash. —Star Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020

The latter hogwash led to a deeply disappointing number of online videos of people sticking metal objects to themselves. —Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2023

That’s just hogwash. —Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 30 Aug. 2022