0 tricks used to deceive, or words used to hide what is happening or make it not clear:
So much of what politicians say is just hocus-pocus.
1 tricks used to deceive or words used to hide what is happening, esp. by making the actual situation difficult to understand:
Like so many politicians, he relies on a lot of statistical hocus-pocus.
Thus, the 'doubly stressed' hocus-pocus will always be realized with one of the parts stronger than the other.
What is all this elaborate nonsense and hocus-pocus which involves leaving 500,000 people outside the scheme because they are not "proper" contributors?
I should like to have a definition of "hocus-pocus".
There is a fair amount of hocus-pocus in the way in which the commission operates.
This is all part of the great hocus-pocus that we have erected around legal appointments.
They knew that it was hocus-pocus from the start.
This hocus-pocus of posts of responsibility is doing no good at all.
Both types of debate are enveloped in exactly the same sort of hocus-pocus.
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