How to Use hogwash in a Sentence

hogwash

noun
  • You wouldn't believe the hogwash he was spouting at us.
  • That’s hogwash at this point and needs to stop.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This is, of course, complete hogwash.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • 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 Holbert, who has been on council in the past, said that’s hogwash.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 8 Feb. 2021
  • But the notion that the shift is causing a retirement crisis is hogwash.
    — Josh B. McGee, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
  • This is the sort of expert hogwash that Reiner, for a while, did better than anyone.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The contention that this state can’t afford free community college is hogwash.
    — George Skelton, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Butera, effectively, called the outside noise hogwash.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Butera, effectively, called the outside noise hogwash.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Some motorcycle enthusiasts think the whole idea of trying to shush biker noise is hogwash.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2022
  • Rarely has there been such a poorly justified fantasy, promoting a number of claims loaded with hogwash.
    — Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • In a more meaningful sense, however, Netanyahu’s statement is hogwash.
    — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The Yesha Rabbinical Council has approved the swine brigade, but critics dismiss the idea as hogwash.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2003
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Misinformation and anti-science hogwash will continue to plague us.
    — Andrew Winston, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Some are eager to make the comparison; others denounce it as hogwash and misappropriation.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • According to Google’s usage graph, hogwash has become increasingly popular in the last 50 years.
    — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 29 May 2018

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