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Synonyms for eyewash

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Noun

1. Bullshit — something deceptive and superficially pleasing but without accurate or genuine substance, camouflage…

window-dressing, bullshit, hokum, hogwash, balderdash, bull, rubbish, drivel, malarkey informal, whitewash, blah, bunk, piffle, twaddle, baloney, humbug, rigmarole, rigamarole US, prattle, blatherskite, galimatias, skimble-skamble, bunkum dated

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Something deceptive and superficially pleasing but without accurate or genuine substance: camouflage; disguise; false front; pretense; nonsense.

    Near-synonyms: hogwash, whitewash, window dressing

Related words

Word family
eyebath

Forms

Plural
eyewashes → window-dressings, hokums, hogwashes, bulls…

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
eyewashrising
whitewashsteady
collyriumfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
bull1, blah1, bunk1
5 letters
hokum2
6 letters
drivel2, humbug2, piffle, bunkum
7 letters
rubbish2, baloney3, hogwash2, prattle2, twaddle2
8 letters
bullshit2, malarkey3
9 letters
whitewash2, rigmarole, collyrium
10 letters
balderdash3, rigamarole, galimatias
12 letters
blatherskite

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokum2 = 2 syllables).