dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/hok_MWT.json
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{
"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"
]
}
}