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pooh-pooh

VERB
  1. express contempt about
  2. reject with contempt
    She spurned his advances

How To Use pooh-pooh In A Sentence

  • The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
  • The notion that children's taste in toys might somehow be genetically determined has long been disparaged by psychologists, pooh-poohed as unscientific, sexist or both.
  • They pooh-poohed our scheme for raising money.
  • When the late Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez more than two decades ago proposed his theory that a comet or asteroid had done in the dinosaurs, paleontologists and many other scientists pooh-poohed the idea.
  • The grievances brought forward, amongst others that of the _salt-horse_, (a horse's hoof with the shoe on, so swore the cook, had been found in the pickle,) were treated as trifles and pooh-poohed by the functionary, "a minute gentleman with a viciously pugged nose, and a decidedly thin pair of legs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
  • But more than half of ANF members pooh-poohed the proposal in a recent survey. What's a Poor French Noble to Do Without a King to Call His Own?
  • Historian Charles MacDonald has pooh-poohed the idea of a cover-up.
  • He also pooh-poohed suggestions that low-fare carriers are making traditional carriers obsolete.
  • The golden jubilee had been looked forward to with relish by royalists and pooh-poohed by metropolitan media pundits.
  • Well, the last pooh-pooh is on them: It turns out we’re already cutting emissions in the United States. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Are CO2 Initiatives Already Working?
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