poppycock

How to use poppycock in a sentence

• It happened on the same day Jack Phelan, a coach Gallagher adored, died suddenly at 66 after a lifetime that included being the man who ushered Hartford into Division I in 1981, back when many saw that idea as poppycock.

  How a Hartford hug between coach and player showed joy, pain, relief, struggle and Madness | Chuck Culpepper | March 18, 2021 | Washington Post

• There's too much of the poppycock—too many of those long-haired, long-winded donkeys playing the miniature creator for my taste.

  The Scarecrow and Other Stories | G. Ranger Wormser

• The Waif was no poppycock yacht, built to dodge about the Solent and run for Cowes if the wind blew a capful.

  The White Waterfall | James Francis Dwyer

• "I knew he'd talked a lot of poppycock about a man who was still living having been shot to death," Whitburn retorted.

  The Edge of the Knife | Henry Beam Piper

• Billy Stark, coming in at the door, thought that sounded like poppycock, but Electra knew it was the wisdom of the chosen.

  Rose MacLeod | Alice Brown