bullshit
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In the face of too much comfort, Remi turned friends against Margery, made up rumors, middle-school bullshit.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2024
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
A thought like, "Joan Didion was a master prose stylist and brilliant thinker who said some real bullshit about feminism" cannot stand.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2022
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
"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
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
“I went to classes at first and then I just started watching YouTube videos all the time, bullshitting around with message boards, the meme culture and gaming,” he says.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2017
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
