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
It’s a Russian expression—to put noodles on someone’s ears is to lie, to bullshit them.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2022
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
“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
Imposter syndrome, the warped mirror-image of bullshitting, affects two-thirds of working women in the UK.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 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
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
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
