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