bullshit
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I teach a class on bullshit — an act, often with full confidence, intended to persuade, with no allegiance to truth.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Inscryption cuts out most of the bullshit that comes with traditional deckbuilding games and allows me to get to the good stuff: building a deck so overpowered that I feel like a god.
From The Verge ● Nov. 2, 2021
At any given moment, it’s fair to presume that Rogan is 50 percent supplement and 50 percent bullshit, and at times it can be difficult to distinguish one side from the other.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
I finally understand that thing parents say about loving all of their children equally, even though until I tried to force-rank jam, it seemed like bullshit.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2021
Until cancer, you care about a lot of bullshit that doesn't really matter.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
As indicated above, ordinary lying involves intentional false claims about the world, while bullshitting involves intentionally false claims and representations about the bullshitter themselves.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2019
The voice of the show is familiar, from barbershop persiflage, stoop-sitting smack talk, and barstool bullshitting.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2019
You always see these guys standing around bullshitting, there’s nobody coming in.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2017
Second floor was nothing but a hallway where humans were talking and bullshitting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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