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
He had been smiling until he believed his eye-teeth were wearing thin from exposure, but it seemed the one thing that had a grain in it among all the buncombe and bluff.
From The Duke Of Chimney Butte by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
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