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What does bunkum mean?

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Noun
  1. (slang) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense (countable).
  2. (Washington, DC) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause. [1820s]
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But an unusually wonderful and totally involving display at Tate Modern makes almightily clear that this view is bunkum.
Most Australians believe this is bunkum, pure and simple, because they'd already lost confidence in the integrity of the system.
Looking around, I saw several parents who seemed as uneasy as we did with this left-wing bunkum.
I regret, however, to have to write that this idea of self-sacrifice is really all bunkum.
In fact, it shows that all the half-hints at challenges and hard choices and pain heard from leading SF representatives over the weekend was bunkum.
Bad laws are there to be broken and no one with a smidgen of self respect and national pride should apologise to anyone for taking a stand against such bunkum.

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