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tommyrot

[tom-ee-rot] / ˈtɒm iˌrɒt /


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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

Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was tommyrot, cried he to the press, for critics to complain because the plan did not aim at economy as well as efficiency.

From Time Magazine Archive

How much we scorn the little crumbs that are thrown our way, such as the $300 mustering-out pay and all such meaningless tommyrot.

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"Spit out the dregs of that congratulatory tommyrot, or you'll poison yourself with such a big dose of hypocrisy."

From The Comedienne by Edmund Obecny




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