Similar words: focus, focused, locust, focus on, focussed, jocund, autocue, procure. Meaning: n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.
1 So much of what politicians say is just hocus-pocus.
2 He thinks psychology is a load of hocus-pocus.
3 Higgledy-piggledy merges, all too easily, into hocus-pocus.
4 Corporate executives should recognize financial hocus-pocus by now.
5 Don't hocus-pocus at me!
6 I am the old man. I know hocus-pocus.
7 It is unlikely he would have mistaken hocus-pocus for genuine knowledge.
8 But besides the carnival and hocus-pocus, this book also considers deeper questions about life and fate.
9 And no amount of financial hocus-pocus —for that is what the Geithner plan amounts to —will change that fact.
10 I snapped. "I'm too exhausted for any hocus-pocus right now, Gloria!
11 I snapped. "I'm too exhausted for any hocus-pocus right now, Gloria! I want my daughter home!"
12 I'm too exhausted for any hocus-pocus right now[sentencedict.com/hocus-pocus.html], Gloria! I want my daughter home!
13 I still think that horoscopes are a load of hocus-pocus.
14 In fact, Smith did not rest his argument on hocus-pocus.
15 In her poor barrio, La Paca impressed some and irked others with her hocus-pocus and well-connected friends.
16 Lind's simple and logical process should have swept through medicine, brushing aside the accumulated hocus-pocus of centuries.
17 There was the Magical Soul-Mate Finder who prescribed keeping a journal, long hikes, candle-lighted bubble baths and other hocus-pocus.
18 He had great respect for education, but he believed it was some kind of hocus-pocus that enabled a man to live without work.
19 I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus.