pooh-pooh
Example Sentences
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It also doesn’t surprise me that you pooh-pooh Newsom’s prospects.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2025
“I used to pooh-pooh all that anxiety stuff and think you can get through this. And then I went through the divorce.”
From New York Times • May 10, 2022
On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021
If you pooh-pooh the credentialed authorities, but then hop into obedience to someone else who says they know, you’re totally missing the point of the Kiesenhofer principle.
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2021
My grandfather is stunned into a momentary silence, then says, “Einstein published a long time ago, too. Are you gonna pooh-pooh him?”
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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