NOUN
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
How To Use hocus-pocus In A Sentence
- It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people. The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars
- By the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, researchers equipped with microscopes founded modern chemistry - and dismissed alchemy as hocus-pocus.
- We may skip the hocus-pocus part of the article and go directly to its conclusions.
- Hey, great, the hocus-pocus exhibition is still going strong. TICKLED PINK
- He was hocus-pocussed into buying an artificial diamond ring.
- Our most beloved hocus-pocus of all is the idea that economic growth will rescue us from all our troubles - but last fall the economy grew 8 percent without creating any new jobs to speak of.
- He thinks psychology is a load of hocus-pocus.
- `And I'm not into crystals and hocus-pocus so I was only going to be mooching until they'd finished. TICKLED PINK
- For secrets on the technical hocus-pocus, go with the two production commentaries.
- It is unlikely he would have mistaken hocus-pocus for genuine knowledge.
