Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).

synonyms: buncombe, bunk, guff, hogwash, rot.

Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; boast, vaunt, crake^†; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade^†; gasconade; blague^†, bluff, gas [Slang]; highfalutin, highfaluting^†; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism^†; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation^†, jactancy^†; bounce; venditation^†, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology^†, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration etc. 549.    vanity etc. 880; vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.].    exultation; gloriation^†, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph etc. 883.    boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron^†, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller^†; blusterer etc. 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy etc. (fop) 854.    ... show more

Roget 933: flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence^†; cajolery; fawning, wheedling etc. v.; captation^†, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism^†, toadeating^†, tuft-hunting; snobbishness.    incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder^†; rose water.    voice of the charmer, mouth honor; lip homage; euphemism; unctuousness etc. adj.. ... show more

Dutch: onzin, zever, pesterij, nonsens
Polish: idioctwo, kretyństwo, idiotyzm