How To Use Pooh-pooh In A Sentence
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The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
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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.
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They pooh-poohed our scheme for raising money.
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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.
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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
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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?
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Historian Charles MacDonald has pooh-poohed the idea of a cover-up.
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He also pooh-poohed suggestions that low-fare carriers are making traditional carriers obsolete.
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The golden jubilee had been looked forward to with relish by royalists and pooh-poohed by metropolitan media pundits.
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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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Now coaching youngsters at grassroots level, she pooh-poohs the notion that one person's idea of realism should be allowed to suffocate another's dreams.
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In the past he has pooh-poohed suggestions that he might succeed Isaacs.
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The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
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Inside it's all creaky floorboards and wooden panelling, yet he pooh-poohs the idea of a ghost.
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Some in the Obama camp have pooh-poohed as small-ball those items that Clinton chased after losing his congressional majorities.
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Granma went home and told her husband what the clairvoyant had said, but he pooh-poohed the idea, and so no action was taken.
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The opener, "If I Were a Bell," is clearly the money track: Mr. Clayton starts by expressing the melody clearly but understatedly, treating it like something newly written and pooh-poohing 60 years of accumulated musical baggage.
Friends, Sisters, Countrymen
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My editors over the years had always pooh-poohed my suggestion for a media section or page as boring for readers, who'd see it as navel gazing.
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When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense.
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How she had called Abner's attention to it, but, man - like, he knew nothing about children, and pooh-poohed it, and was worried by the stock.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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Schmidt begins by stressing the importance of collaborative decision making and pooh-poohing the idea of the visionary CEO as leader.
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With a down-home Cork folksiness that frequently irritates, he addresses himself as though to an audience of elderly curmudgeons, pooh-poohing the antics and excesses of the younger generation.
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They are pooh-poohing suggestions of a split in the party.
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The authorities I spoke with pooh-poohed as urban myth the idea that an electronic assault was behind the power failures that rippled from the Midwest to the East Coast in August of 2003.
Cyber Warriors
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Who are these whippersnappers to pooh-pooh him?
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He pooh-poohed the idea of running to the store to get pre-party and post-party supplies.
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This was thought up by the neoconservatives who saw no bounds to US power and pooh-poohed any sort of concerns about overextension.
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Like those before him, Horowitz pooh-poohs the idea of a recalcitrant left waking up to the error of its anti-war protesting ways.
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On the other hand, some market pros pooh-pooh any October fears, noting that the market is on a roll, what with the Dow -- largely reflecting expectations of a zippier economy -- having ballooned more than 700 points since late July.
Dan Dorfman: More Than Those Autumn Leaves Could Fall
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The current favourite among the newer generation of stars, Kapoor with a toss of her well shaped head pooh-poohs any suggestions of being the ‘dumb blonde’.
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His doctor pooh-poohs the idea this may be due to any of the drugs he's taking.
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‘I'm reluctant to pooh-pooh the idea of true love, because it's such a treasured view in our culture,’ says Hazan.
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Of course the scoffers again pooh-poohed the idea that any nations could be found willing to conclude such treaties; but those who ridiculed have been again put to shame, for within the last twelve months, thirteen treaties have been concluded between various nations.
Randal Cremer - Nobel Lecture
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Artificial-intelligence experts tend to pooh-pooh chatbots, because they argue that they're not "real" intelligence.
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The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
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My lust for life and overindulgence meant that I pooh-poohed the idea of taking seven days to detox - as a Londoner, I could do it in a single day.
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Linguists pooh-pooh the idea that the original meaning of a term can somehow persist in the collective unconscious after it has been lost to individual recall.
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Unmoved we stared at a load of cold, geometrical abstractions, pooh-poohed the idea of living in such a gallery and, on the brink of calling it a day, stoically suffered on.
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Such was the case; and when the captain did turn out at breakfast time he had heard the first mate’s version of the affair, and as the felucca had now quite disappeared below the horizon, altogether pooh-poohed Tom's account of having recognised Mohammed's "corsair," even although Charley backed him up by his statement of what he had heard say in conversation with the stranger.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
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He also pooh-poohs the idea of auspicious days for starting house construction.
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When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense.
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I spoke to Ben at the time, who pooh-poohed the idea.
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Some people pooh-pooh the idea, grumbling that Hollywood has run out of original ideas.
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For ordinary purposes 17 feet of greenheart or split-cane are ample, and the modern salmon angler has come to look upon even this -- which our forefathers would have pooh-poohed as a mere grilse-rod -- as excessive.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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Now's the time when sports observers everywhere adopt a standard pose of indignation, a haughty pooh-poohing of the opinions of the masses.
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My lust for life and overindulgence meant that I pooh-poohed the idea of taking seven days to detox - as a Londoner, I could do it in a single day.
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I broke the matter with my dear Sir Charles; but he pooh-poohed my anxieties in his sailorly fashion, saying: --
The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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In fact, I kind of pooh-poohed it for a while, telling myself that they weren't working as hard as I if at the end of the day they didn't collapse in exhaustion in front of the TV.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Many are the times I have accompanied my frail, elderly mother on doctor and hospital visits, and had my explanations and information routinely ignored or pooh-poohed.
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The agrichemical companies that profit from neonicotinoids, quickly pooh-poohed the findings, and no government seems prepared to act.
Times, Sunday Times
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Microsoft and Telecom have pooh-poohed suggestions that consumers will be burned by broadband charges when using Microsoft's recently launched Xbox Live online gaming service…
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I thought it was quite a good idea,but she pooh-poohed it.
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I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to.
Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates
