| Main Entry: | baloney |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
bull, bunk, hogwash, hooey, humbug |
| Notes: | nonsense is baloney; sausage is bologna |
| Main Entry: | blarney |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery |
Synonyms: |
a line, adulation, baloney, blandishment, cajolery, coaxing, compliments, exaggeration, eyewash, fawning, honey*, incense, ingratiation, inveiglement, oil, overpraise, soft soap, soft words, sweet talk, wheedling |
| Main Entry: | bunk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bilge, claptrap, eyewash, flimflam, garbage*, hogwash, hooey, horsefeathers, jazz, piffle, poppycock, rot*, rubbish, tomfoolery*, tommyrot, trash*, twaddle |
Antonyms: |
sense |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, baloney, bamboozlement, bill of goods, bunco, chicanery, con, con game, cover up, cozening, deceit, deception, dirty pool, dirty trick, dodge, double-dealing, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, hoaxing, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, jive, plant, put-on, racket, rip-off, run around, scam, sell, shady deal, sham, shell game, snow job, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong |
| Main Entry: | distortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity; falsification |
Synonyms: |
BS, baloney, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, crookedness, exaggeration, intorsion, jazz, jive, lie, line, malconformation, malformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misshape, misstatement, misuse, mutilation, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, tall story, torture, twist, twistedness, warp |
Antonyms: |
beauty, clarity, perfection |
| Main Entry: | double-talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense communicated |
Synonyms: |
amphibiology, balderdash, baloney, bull*, drivel, equivocation, flimflam, gibberish, jazz, mumbo jumbo, rigmarole |
Antonyms: |
sense, straight talk |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
| Main Entry: | falderal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | folderol, foolishness |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, baloney, bunk, craziness, garbage, gibberish, gobbledygook, horse feathers, lunacy, nonsense, stupidity, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | gobbledygook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
Synonyms: |
amphigory, balderdash, baloney, bosh, bull*, bunk, cant, drivel, gibberish, hooey, macaronics, rigmarole, rubbish* |
| Main Entry: | guff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
baloney, bull, bunk, bunkum, crap, drivel, flapdoodle, foolishness, garbage, hogwash, hooey, poppycock, rubbish |