单词	hokum
释义	hokumho‧kum /ˈhəʊkəm $ ˈhoʊ-/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINhokum Origin: 1900-2000 Probably from hocus-pocus + bunkum Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Jackson said the entire plan was hokum. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But one was left wondering at the decision to commit time, money and talent to this dingy piece of hokum. Cowboys, trail dust and great six-stringed hokum converge on Tucson this week with the ninth-annual Western Music Festival. Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum. One could tolerate this kind of hokum, if only the movie had some fun with it. Similarly the rise of Existentialism in the 1950s made an interest in matters spiritual seem like so much unfashionable hokum. The movie is nonstop, state-of-the-art, over-the-top Hollywood hokum. informal something that seems true or impressive but that is wrong or not sincere:  All that talk is just a bunch of hokum.
随便看	predominate preemie pre-eminence pre-eminent pre-eminently pre-empt pre-emption pre-emptive preen pre-existing prefab prefabricated prefabrication preface prefatory prefect prefecture prefer preferable preferably preference preferential preferentially preferment prefigure

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