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What does hokum mean?

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Noun
  1. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.
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Say, for the sake of argument, that this is all unsubstantiated holistic hokum.
But for the most part our endless classifying, grouping, and arranging is nothing but high-grade hokum, mixed with a lot of bunkum.
This was clearly hokum as subsequent details of Denis's comfortable bank balance became apparent.
Despite the laborious backstory and mood lighting, the movie is chock full of standard comic book hokum.
But I would say this whole hokum about these missile agreements, these negotiations, has now broken into a total farce.
If hokum like that can find its way into the final film, why not some more over-the-top musical numbers?

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