Synonyms for baloney
bəˈloʊ nibaloney

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1. baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddlenoun

   pretentious or silly talk or writing

   Synonyms:
   drool, fraud, drivel, bosh, slobber, tale, dribble, tommyrot, boloney, hoax, put-on, snake oil, humbug, taradiddle, bilgewater, story, fib, tarradiddle, tosh, dupery, twaddle, fraudulence

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1. • Nonsense

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1. List of paraphrases for "baloney":

   sausage, bullshit

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How to use baloney in a sentence?

1. Bill Cunningham:

   A lot of people complain about fashion and fast fashion. There is no fashion. That is baloney. Look at this.

2. Chris Christie:

   Let me be clear : All these fears are baloney. When it comes to fighting terrorism, our government is not the enemy.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done, he was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.

4. Dave Maass:

   Vigilant likes to say that drivers don’t have a right to privacy because of license plates but that’s baloney, they are taking advantage of a public safety rule that came years before anyone thought that data collection like this would be possible.

5. Fulton J. Sheen:

   Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.