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
As usual the flood of newspaper buncombe about Mars and its inhabitants appears.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, spite of these well-known facts, northern buncombe never tired of assailing "the rebel sympathies" of England!
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.
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