hocus's Usage Examples:

My husband thinks its all hocus pocus and takes a negative angle when asking questions about auras.

For this, it is said, Dionysus, to whose worship Dirce had been devoted, visited Antiope with madness, which caused her to wander restlessly all over Greece till she was cured, and married by Phocus of Tithorea, on Mount Parnassus, where both were buried in one grave (Pausanias ix.

Synonyms:

skulduggery, deception, deceit, jiggery-pokery, slickness, skullduggery, misrepresentation, hanky panky, trickery,

Antonyms:

honesty, profundity, roughness, truth, understatement,