tommyrot

Example Sentences

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The fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot.

From Time Magazine Archive

To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The big rumors about meeting here to discuss stopping the bombing or to pull out," he said, "are just pure, absolute tommyrot and fiction."

From Time Magazine Archive

Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing, nothing—absolutely nothing, if he has any sense and drops this municipal ownership tommyrot.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen