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How To Use Poppycock In A Sentence

  • Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.
  • They have shown that even a still photograph can convey a lot of information about competence—and that it can do so in a way which suggests the assessments of all those senior managers were poppycock.
  • And to suggest that Ireland, as a sovereign Republic, should not be entitled to lay down certain conditions for citizenship on the grounds that this might somehow be racist or unjustly discriminatory is pure poppycock.
  • All this poppycock about not having educated workforces, all this stuff about, well, you're crying protectionism, you're China-bashing.
  • There are reports of dioxins and suchlike but that's poppycock.
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  • Currently many people care to have discussions as if they have something to say but there is no sound when they move their lips, just a bunch of poppycock.
  • Therefore, when Dr Yates argues that children should start counting from zero, we know that he is attempting to popularize poppycock.
  • All of the above poppycock is a mere euphemism; for hate the black president. CNN Truth Squad: No eye care until you're blind in one eye?
  • And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
  • Those five judges up there are not going to sustain any such poppycock idea as this.
  • I agree with you about the word poppycock, but disagree that Simon's argument fits the term. Two TV-Related Articles Worth Reading - TV Guidance - Macleans.ca
  • In an attempt to thwart the onset of this condition in myself I recently caught myself using the word "poppycock", I have admitted that there is indeed still much I don't know, and have also resolved to open my mind to new knowledge. Appealing Package: What's New Is Old Again
  • He dismissed the official explanationas complete poppycock.
  • To address all of this, I should start by saying from the offset that I view ‘summer reading’ as a load of poppycock.
  • ‘It's absolute poppycock (that we demanded money from them),’ she said.
  • In the wake of the Twinkie defense, a representative of the ITT-owned Continental Baking Company asserted that the notion that overdosing on the cream-filled goodies could lead to murderous behavior was "poppycock" and "crap" -- apparently two of the artificial ingredients in Twinkies, along with sodium pyrophosphate and yellow dye -- while another spokesperson for ITT couldn't believe "that a rational jury paid serious attention to that issue. Paul Krassner: Behind the Infamous Twinkie Defense
  • Politically maybe the idea seems good, but militarily it's poppycock.
  • ‘It was all absolute nonsense, complete poppycock,’ said Lennon.
  • To a narrow-minded military man like Darling, talk of rights was poppycock.
  • So although that doctrine sounds wonderful, it is a lot of poppycock and codswallop to say that we should all be tolerant of everybody and should not have any standards.
  • I've got to say that it's absolute balderdash and poppycock.
  • It should have been called nonsense and poppycock, but it was tempting to believe it as prices just kept rocketing.
  • Gerry Doherty, leader of the TSSA union, and a vocal opponent of Network Rail's bonus payments, said the company's claims of record punctuality were "poppycock". Network Rail talks up cost savings and punctuality
  • Which, of course, is pure poppycock, but perhaps inevitable.
  • This, of course, is poppycock, and Marx knew that full well.
  • I guess me get too excited for my own good, but where did the word poppycock come from? Archive 2009-01-01
  • He said: ‘I say poppycock to claims this county is safe.’
  • And all this talk of it being a man's world is pure balderdash, poppycock and gibberish.
  • It's a load of poppycock we hear talked about us, but it's a great motivational tool.
  • While it is easier to cast these rumours aside as poppycock, some of them are definitely worth paying attention to.
  • COOPER: Candy, we don't hear the word -- the word poppycock enough, do we? CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2005
  • What we hear from the provincial government that there is no money is poppycock.
  • I've got to say that it's absolute balderdash and poppycock.
  • Apparently the word poppycock means "senseless talk" and probably originated from the Dutch who have a similar word pappekak which means "soft dung". No Ziggy? Poppycock or Poppyvag?
  • A will-o'-the-wispish set of tortured facts, emotions, and flimsy philosophies, the arguments are super-charged with pure poppycock. Growing Pains

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