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
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
But at least Maisel was bullshit in a lively, debatable way—EiP is just bad yogurt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
I was too busy thinking about what Jaden said about Lester putting us to work, how that was probably bullshit, something to get us back there and send us to real jail.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
“When I last saw her, I didn’t see a celebrity. All I saw across was a friend sharing green curry, bullshitting about the past and life in general,” he says.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 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
