Synonyms for snake oil
snake oil

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1. snake oilnoun

   (medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless

   Synonyms:
   humbug

2. humbug, snake oilnoun

   communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

   Synonyms:
   drool, fraud, bosh, fraudulence, tommyrot, boloney, hoax, put-on, humbug, taradiddle, baloney, bilgewater, tarradiddle, tosh, dupery, twaddle

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1. • Liquid
   • Medicine
   • Misrepresentation

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1. Chief Richard Moore:

   They’re selling their snake oil around the world.

2. Andrew Lane:

   I mean, there's a whole industry of different things that people give to people with olfactory loss, and mostly it's snake oil kind of stuff, and there’s very kind of skimpy data about it, but there is no medication that we have that restores a sense of smell.

3. Marc Short:

   I think, unfortunately, the president had many bad advisers who were basically snake-oil salesmen, giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do.

4. President Barack Obama:

   If we don't recognize the progress we've made and how that came about, then we may chase some snake oil and end up having policies that get us back in the swamp.

5. Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

   About a quarter through it I thought, 'You know – he's selling a bill of goods like a snake oil salesman. We cannot let this ... stand. So ... I started to stack my papers in a way that were tear-able.