{
  "hokeypokey":{
    "language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
      "examples":[
        "every year the legislature has to go through the same hokeypokey before it balances the state budget"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "applesauce",
        "balderdash",
        "baloney",
        "boloney",
        "beans",
        "bilge",
        "blah",
        "blah-blah",
        "blarney",
        "blather",
        "blatherskite",
        "blither",
        "bosh",
        "bull",
        "bunk",
        "bunkum",
        "buncombe",
        "claptrap",
        "codswallop",
        "crapola",
        "crock",
        "drivel",
        "drool",
        "fiddle",
        "fiddle-faddle",
        "fiddlesticks",
        "flannel",
        "flapdoodle",
        "folderol",
        "falderal",
        "folly",
        "foolishness",
        "fudge",
        "garbage",
        "guff",
        "hogwash",
        "hokum",
        "hoodoo",
        "hooey",
        "horsefeathers",
        "humbug",
        "humbuggery",
        "jazz",
        "malarkey",
        "malarky",
        "moonshine",
        "muck",
        "nerts",
        "nonsense",
        "nuts",
        "piffle",
        "poppycock",
        "punk",
        "rot",
        "rubbish",
        "senselessness",
        "silliness",
        "slush",
        "stupidity",
        "taradiddle",
        "tarradiddle",
        "tommyrot",
        "tosh",
        "trash",
        "trumpery",
        "twaddle"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "absurdity",
        "asininity",
        "fatuity",
        "foolery",
        "idiocy",
        "imbecility",
        "inaneness",
        "inanity",
        "insanity",
        "kookiness",
        "lunacy",
        "absurdness",
        "craziness",
        "madness",
        "witlessness",
        "hoity-toity",
        "monkey business",
        "monkeyshine(s)",
        "shenanigan(s)",
        "tomfoolery",
        "gas",
        "hot air",
        "rigmarole",
        "rigamarole",
        "double-talk",
        "greek",
        "hocus-pocus"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "levelheadedness",
        "rationality",
        "reasonability",
        "reasonableness",
        "sensibleness",
        "common sense",
        "horse sense",
        "sense",
        "discernment",
        "judgment",
        "judgement",
        "wisdom"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hokeyness":{
    "as in corn , schmaltz":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "corn",
        "corniness",
        "schmaltz",
        "schmalz",
        "sentiment",
        "emotion",
        "bathos",
        "gooeyness",
        "lovey-doveyness",
        "mawkishness",
        "mush",
        "mushiness",
        "saccharinity",
        "sappiness",
        "sentimentalism",
        "sentimentality",
        "sloppiness",
        "soppiness",
        "syrup",
        "sirup"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "cynicism",
        "hardheadedness",
        "hard-heartedness"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hokey":{
    "tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated":{
      "examples":[
        "their father's sense of humor was hokey beyond belief and most people's endurance"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "corn-fed",
        "cornball",
        "cornpone",
        "corny"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "countrified",
        "countryfied",
        "down-home",
        "folksy",
        "rustic",
        "rustical",
        "hick",
        "hickish"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "cosmopolitan",
        "smart",
        "sophisticated",
        "worldly",
        "worldly-wise",
        "hip",
        "trendy",
        "with-it"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  }
}