baloney

The word “baloney” has 3 syllables: ba-lo-ney

It's pronounced as /bəˈloʊni/


What is synonym and antonym for baloney?

In the thesaurus, “baloney” has 90 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for baloney along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for baloney

  • absurdity
  • absurdness
  • applesauce
  • asininity
  • balderdash
  • beans
  • bilge
  • blah
  • blah-blah
  • blarney
  • blather
  • blatherskite
  • blither
  • bosh
  • bull
  • buncombe
  • bunk
  • bunkum
  • claptrap
  • codswallop
  • crapola
  • craziness
  • crock
  • double-talk
  • drivel
  • drool
  • falderal
  • fatuity
  • fiddle
  • fiddle-faddle
  • fiddlesticks
  • flannel
  • flapdoodle
  • folderol
  • folly
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • fudge
  • garbage
  • gas
  • greek
  • guff
  • hocus-pocus
  • hogwash
  • hoity-toity
  • hokeypokey
  • hokum
  • hoodoo
  • hooey
  • horsefeathers
  • hot air
  • humbug
  • humbuggery
  • idiocy
  • imbecility
  • inaneness
  • inanity
  • insanity
  • jazz
  • kookiness
  • lunacy
  • madness
  • malarkey
  • malarky
  • monkey business
  • moonshine
  • muck
  • nerts
  • nonsense
  • nuts
  • piffle
  • poppycock
  • punk
  • rigamarole
  • rigmarole
  • rot
  • rubbish
  • senselessness
  • silliness
  • slush
  • stupidity
  • taradiddle
  • tarradiddle
  • tomfoolery
  • tommyrot
  • tosh
  • trash
  • trumpery
  • twaddle
  • witlessness

Antonyms for baloney

Meanings of baloney

  • noun
    1. A type of sausage; bologna.
    2. Nonsense.

Example Sentences

  • He tried to convince us with some baloney about aliens visiting Earth.
  • Don't believe a word of his baloney, he's just trying to manipulate you.
  • The politician's promises sounded like pure baloney to the skeptical audience.
  • Her excuse for being late was nothing but baloney, we knew she had overslept.
  • The salesman's pitch was full of baloney, but some people still fell for it.

On this page you'll find 103 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to baloney, such as: absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, asininity, balderdash, beans, bilge.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

backhanded

  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • affected
  • ambiguous
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • bogus
  • campy
  • canting
  • claptrap
  • contrived
  • counterfeit
  • deceitful
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • double
  • double-dealing
  • double-edged
  • double-faced
  • empty
  • equivocal
  • facetious
  • facile
  • fake
  • false
  • feigned
  • forced
  • glib
  • hollow
  • hypocritical
  • insincere
  • jive
  • jocular
  • left-handed
  • lip
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • pharisaical
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phony
  • phony-baloney
  • pious
  • pretended
  • put-on
  • sanctimonious
  • sarcastic
  • sardonic
  • self-righteous
  • sham
  • simon-pure
  • simulated
  • strained
  • superficial
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • two-edged
  • two-faced
  • unctuous
  • unnatural
  • untruthful

balderdash

  • absurdity
  • absurdness
  • applesauce
  • asininity
  • baloney
  • beans
  • bilge
  • blah
  • blah-blah
  • blarney
  • blather
  • blatherskite
  • blither
  • boloney
  • bosh
  • bull
  • buncombe
  • bunk
  • bunkum
  • claptrap
  • codswallop
  • crapola
  • craziness
  • crock
  • double-talk
  • drivel
  • drool
  • falderal
  • fatuity
  • fiddle
  • fiddle-faddle
  • fiddlesticks
  • flannel
  • flapdoodle
  • flummery
  • folderol
  • folly
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • fudge
  • fustian
  • garbage
  • gas
  • greek
  • guff
  • hocus-pocus
  • hogwash
  • hoity-toity
  • hokeypokey
  • hokum
  • hoodoo
  • hooey
  • horsefeathers
  • hot air
  • humbug
  • humbuggery
  • idiocy
  • imbecility
  • inaneness
  • inanity
  • insanity
  • jargon
  • jazz
  • kookiness
  • lunacy
  • madness
  • malarkey
  • malarky
  • monkey business
  • moonshine
  • muck
  • nerts
  • nonsense
  • nuts
  • piffle
  • poppycock
  • punk
  • rigamarole
  • rigmarole
  • rot
  • rubbish
  • senselessness
  • silliness
  • slush
  • stupidity
  • taradiddle
  • tarradiddle
  • tomfoolery
  • tommyrot
  • tosh
  • trash
  • tripe
  • trumpery
  • twaddle
  • witlessness

bamboozlement

  • abashment
  • agitation
  • artifice
  • bafflement
  • baloney
  • barratry
  • befuddlement
  • bemusement
  • bewilderedness
  • bewilderment
  • bill of goods
  • blackmail
  • bother
  • bunco
  • chagrin
  • cheat
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • commotion
  • con
  • con game
  • confusedness
  • confusion
  • cover up
  • cozening
  • craft
  • deceit
  • deception
  • dirty pool
  • dirty trick
  • discombobulation
  • discomfiture
  • discomfort
  • disconcertment
  • dismay
  • disquiet
  • distraction
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • dither
  • dodge
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duping
  • duplicity
  • embarrassment
  • extortion
  • fake
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • fix
  • flimflam
  • flurry
  • fluster
  • fog
  • fourberie
  • frame
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • fuss
  • graft
  • guile
  • hanky-panky
  • head-scratching
  • hoax
  • hoaxing
  • hocus-pocus
  • hoodwinking
  • humbug
  • hustle
  • imposture
  • jazz
  • jive
  • line
  • maze
  • misrepresentation
  • mortification
  • muddle
  • mystification
  • perplexity
  • perturbation
  • plant
  • put on
  • puzzlement
  • racket
  • ripoff
  • run around
  • scam
  • sell
  • shady deal
  • shakedown
  • sham
  • sharp practice
  • shell game
  • skunk
  • smoke
  • snow job
  • song
  • song and dance
  • spoof
  • spuriousness
  • stew
  • sting
  • stunt
  • swindle
  • swindling
  • tangle
  • treachery
  • trick
  • trickery
  • turmoil
  • upset
  • whirl
  • whitewash
  • wrong

cajolery

  • a line
  • acclaim
  • acclamation
  • admiration
  • adulation
  • alignment
  • allurement
  • alluring
  • applause
  • appreciation
  • approbation
  • approval
  • arm-twist
  • attraction
  • babble
  • bait
  • baloney
  • blab
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blessing
  • bootlicking
  • bouquet
  • brainwashing
  • buttering up
  • cajolement
  • chatter
  • chitchat
  • clack
  • coaxing
  • cogency
  • come-hither
  • come-on
  • commendation
  • comp
  • compliments
  • con
  • conference
  • confirmation
  • congratulations
  • conversation
  • conversion
  • convincing
  • courtesy
  • debate
  • decoy
  • dialogue
  • discussion
  • encomium
  • endorsement
  • enticement
  • entreaty
  • eulogy
  • exaggeration
  • exhortation
  • eyewash
  • fair words
  • fascination
  • favor
  • fawning
  • felicitation
  • flatter
  • flattering
  • flattery
  • flummery
  • force
  • fulsomeness
  • gab
  • gallantry
  • good word
  • goose
  • hard sell
  • hokum
  • homage
  • honey
  • honeyed words
  • honor
  • hook
  • incense
  • inducement
  • inducing
  • influencing
  • ingratiation
  • insincere flattery
  • inveiglement
  • jive
  • kudo
  • laud
  • laudation
  • laurels
  • lobbying
  • lure
  • mousetrap
  • mush
  • nobbling
  • notice
  • obsequiousness
  • oil
  • orchid
  • ovation
  • overpersuasion
  • overpraise
  • palaver
  • panegyric
  • parley
  • pat on the back
  • persuading
  • persuasion
  • persuasiveness
  • plaudits
  • posy
  • potency
  • power
  • praise
  • pressuring
  • pretty speech
  • promise
  • promote
  • prompting
  • puffery
  • pull
  • regard
  • respects
  • sanction
  • seduction
  • sell
  • sentiment
  • smooth talk
  • snare
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • squeeze
  • stroking
  • suasion
  • swaying
  • sweet nothings
  • sweet words
  • sweet-talk
  • sweetener
  • sweetening
  • sycophancy
  • talk
  • tantalizing
  • temptation
  • tempting
  • toadyism
  • trap
  • tribute
  • truckling
  • unctuousness
  • urging
  • veneration
  • warm fuzzy
  • wheedle
  • wheedling
  • winning over
  • working over

fake

  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • act
  • actor
  • ad-lib
  • adulterate
  • adulterated
  • affect
  • affected
  • artful
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • automatic
  • backhanded
  • bastard
  • bluff
  • bluffer
  • bogus
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • calculated
  • camouflage
  • campy
  • canned
  • canting
  • charlatan
  • cheat
  • claptrap
  • conceal
  • concoct
  • concocted
  • conscious
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conventional
  • copy
  • copycat
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiter
  • cozener
  • crib
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • cute
  • cutesy
  • deceitful
  • deceiver
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defrauder
  • deke
  • deliberate
  • delusive
  • designer
  • devious
  • devise
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dissemble
  • dissembler
  • dissimulate
  • doctor
  • doctored
  • dodge
  • dodger
  • double
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • duffer
  • dummy
  • duper
  • duplicate
  • empty
  • engineered
  • ersatz
  • evade
  • exaggerated
  • extemporize
  • fabricate
  • fabricated
  • fabrication
  • facetious
  • facile
  • facsimile
  • factitious
  • fake out
  • faker
  • fakir
  • false
  • faux
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feigner
  • feint
  • fictitious
  • flimflam
  • forced
  • forge
  • forged
  • forgery
  • formal
  • four-flusher
  • fraud
  • fraudster
  • fraudulent
  • fudge
  • fudged
  • gaff
  • genteel
  • glib
  • gold brick
  • goody-goody
  • hatch
  • histrionic
  • hoax
  • hoaxer
  • hokey
  • hollow
  • humbug
  • hypocritical
  • imitate
  • imitation
  • imitative
  • imitator
  • impersonal
  • impersonate
  • impersonator
  • imposition
  • imposter
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improvise
  • inauthentic
  • inflexible
  • insincere
  • invent
  • invented
  • jive
  • jocular
  • juggle
  • juggled
  • juke
  • junque
  • knockoff
  • labored
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lip
  • make believe
  • make up
  • malinger
  • man-made
  • manipulate
  • manipulated
  • manufacture
  • manufactured
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • melodramatic
  • mimic
  • mincing
  • misleader
  • misleading
  • mock
  • mock-up
  • mountebank
  • nonfunctioning
  • operator
  • ornamental
  • overacted
  • overdone
  • overrefined
  • pat
  • pharisaical
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phony
  • phony-baloney
  • pinchbeck
  • pious
  • plagiarize
  • plant
  • plastic
  • play
  • playact
  • pose
  • poseur
  • premeditated
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretender
  • pretense
  • process
  • profess
  • pseudo
  • pump-fake
  • put on
  • put on an act
  • put-on
  • quack
  • quacksalver
  • queer
  • reduplicate
  • replica
  • replicate
  • reproduce
  • reproduction
  • rigid
  • ringer
  • sanctimonious
  • scam
  • scammer
  • scamster
  • self-righteous
  • sham
  • sharper
  • sharpie
  • sharpy
  • shoddy
  • sidestep
  • simon-pure
  • simpering
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • simulation
  • skinner
  • sleight
  • slip
  • snide
  • spoof
  • spurious
  • stiff
  • strained
  • studied
  • stutter-step
  • stylized
  • substitute
  • superficial
  • swindle
  • swindler
  • synthetic
  • theatric
  • theatrical
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • trick
  • trickster
  • two-faced
  • unauthentic
  • unctuous
  • unnatural
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • untruthful
  • wooden

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