Example sentences for: pooh-pooh

How can you use “pooh-pooh” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As the century draws to a close, "hottest summer" records are being broken left and right, making it harder and harder to pooh-pooh evidence that greenhouse gasses are warming the planet.

  • Next time, instead of hiring two bored journalists to pooh-pooh feminists, how about one bored journalist and one person who actually believes that equality for women is a meaningful concept.

  • According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.

  • I have also read an equal number of disclaimers that pooh-pooh (as it were) the idea of such a named person ever having had anything to do with the creation of this necessary convenience (unorthodoxymoron).

  • He said the "strategic community" on both sides of the Atlantic may have been wrong in relying on historical precedent to pooh-pooh the idea of victory by air power alone.


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