bullshit

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

“Odessa has an unspeakable ability to bullshit itself,” said Warren Burnett, a loquacious, liberal-minded lawyer who after roughly thirty years had fled the place like a refugee for the coastal waters near Houston.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

Imposter syndrome, the warped mirror-image of bullshitting, affects two-thirds of working women in the UK.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2019

When Stephanopoulos reminded Trump that “they’re already there,” the candidate forged ahead like a school kid bullshitting his way through an oral exam that he had not bothered to prepare for.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2016

Frankfurt’s book “On Bullshit” argues that bullshitting is a more radical attack on truth than lying is: Bullshitting is anything but new to politics, of course.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2015

Second floor was nothing but a hallway where humans were talking and bullshitting.

From Time Magazine Archive