bullshit
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People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux relationships with machine personalities that don’t really exist.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023
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
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
"They already know you was there. You backed up Jennica's statement that T was unarmed—it's bullshit, but it's the better narrative."
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
Imposter syndrome, the warped mirror-image of bullshitting, affects two-thirds of working women in the UK.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2019
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
Then again, there’s not a one-to-one correlation between facts and truth when it comes to martini lore in particular or, more generally, that literary genre known as bullshitting in bars.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2013
Second floor was nothing but a hallway where humans were talking and bullshitting.
From Time Magazine Archive
