All bs synonyms
BS
B b noun bs
- poppycock β nonsense; bosh.
- hokum β out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
- hogwash β refuse given to hogs; swill.
- babble β If someone babbles, they talk in a confused or excited way.
- gibberish β meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
- pretense β pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
- garbage β discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- bilge β The bilge or the bilges are the flat bottom part of a ship or boat.
- bosh β empty or meaningless talk or opinions; nonsense
- tripe β the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- bull β A bull is a male animal of the cow family.
- crap β If you describe something as crap, you think that it is wrong or of very poor quality.
- illogicality β illogic.
- improbability β the quality or condition of being improbable; unlikelihood.
- jazz β music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- incongruity β the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- illogical β not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
- applesauce β a relish or dessert made of apples stewed to a pulp and sweetened; (fig.) (sl.) bunkum, nonsense
- ridiculousness β causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
verb bs
- pervert β to affect with perversion.
- frame β a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- invent β to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- dupe β duplicate.
- beguile β If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
- fake β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- prevaricate β to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- concoct β If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
- snow β Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905β80, English novelist and scientist.
- fib β a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- fudge β a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
- falsify β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- victimize β to make a victim of.
- palter β to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- plant β any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- misstate β to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- phony β not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- dissemble β to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- delude β If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
- misinform β to give false or misleading information to.
- fabricate β to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- malign β to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- forswear β to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- perjure β to render (oneself) guilty of swearing falsely or of willfully making a false statement under oath or solemn affirmation: The witness perjured herself when she denied knowing the defendant.
- dissimulate β to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- soft-soap β Informal. to cajole; flatter.
- misspeak β Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
- overdraw β to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- misguide β to guide wrongly; misdirect.