| Main Entry: | banality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common saying |
Synonyms: |
adage, boiler, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, corn, dullsville, familiar tune, high camp, hokum, old chestnut, old saw, plate, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, saw, trite phrase, trivia, triviality, truism |
Antonyms: |
coinage, nuance, original saying |
| Main Entry: | candy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confection |
Synonyms: |
bonbon, confectionery, confit, hokum, jawbreaker, sweet, sweetmeat |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
Synonyms: |
beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
Synonyms: |
adulation, applause, approbation, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, cajolery, commendation, encomium, eulogy, eyewash, fawning, flattering, flummery, fulsomeness, gallantry, gratification, hokum, honeyed words, incense, ingratiation, jive, laud, mush, obsequiousness, palaver, plaudits, pretty speech, puffery, servility, smoke*, snow job, snow*, soft words, soft-soap, stroke*, sweet talk, sycophancy, toadyism, tribute, truckling, unctuousness |
Antonyms: |
belittlement, castigation, condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense |
| Main Entry: | hogwash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
BS, absurdity, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, debris, drivel*, foolishness, hokum, hooey, horsefeathers, poppycock, refuse, ridiculousness, rot, rubbish, trash, twaddle |
Antonyms: |
sense, truth |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
Synonyms: |
banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage |
Antonyms: |
coinage, nuance |
| Main Entry: | smoke and mirrors |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conjuring trick |
Synonyms: |
artful deception, crap, flimflam, hokum, legerdemain, sleight of hand, snow job |
| Main Entry: | double Dutch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incomprehensible talk or writing |
Synonyms: |
Choctaw, Greek, babble, baloney, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hokum, hooey, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, rubbish |
| Main Entry: | applesauce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baloney |
Synonyms: |
bunk, fudge, hogwash, hokum, hooey, malarkey, nonsense, poppycock, pulp, rubbish |
| Main Entry: | sentimentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagant in emotion |
Synonyms: |
bathos, hokum, schmaltz |