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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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It must not be supposed, however, that this was all bunkum to Mr. Spokesly.
But for the most part our endless classifying, grouping, and arranging is nothing but high-grade hokum, mixed with a lot of bunkum.
But an unusually wonderful and totally involving display at Tate Modern makes almightily clear that this view is bunkum.
Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation.
Most Australians believe this is bunkum, pure and simple, because they'd already lost confidence in the integrity of the system.
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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