buncombe
Americannoun
noun
Vocabulary lists containing buncombe
Example Sentences
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Indeed, with Washington today having become a carnival of buncombe so sublimely preposterous that even that great journalistic iconoclast H.L.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2018
What a grotesque debate, a travesty of rhetoric, a carnival of buncombe the likes of which even H.L.
From Slate • Dec. 16, 2015
The 48 hours before this party were a flurry of rumors and numbers and buncombe.
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2012
His formal Senate speeches are blowsy spectacles of noise and buncombe in which he rotates his arms furiously, shakes his great head, bounces up & down on his spindly legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had that fainting spell been buncombe for his benefit as well as Florence's?
From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by MacGrath, Harold
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