hooey

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  • A number of presentations were pure academic hooey, but even more were the product of honest scholarship and hard, serious contemplation. —  Omni: January 1993
  • The hooey was easy to spot: Too often our academic community, particularly academic literary critics, couch their insights in a rhetoric that's also a code, accessible only to accredited members of the critical club. —  Omni: January 1993
  • I also discussed my relevant experience as an experimental physicist; experience which led me to reject outright early claims that “cold fusion is all hooey,” based on hastily conducted experiments that failed to replicate the original result. —  AnalogSF,June2003
  • "That's just hooey - it's just hooey," the ever-polite Hadley concluded, with the strongest language he would muster for print. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • "That's just hooey -- it's just hooey," the ever-polite Hadley concluded, with the strongest language he would muster for print. —  Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
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