tommyrot
Example Sentences
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To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot.
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It was tommyrot, cried he to the press, for critics to complain because the plan did not aim at economy as well as efficiency.
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Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.
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The fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot.
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"And the bishops," I said, "still wear their purple stocks, their aprons, and their gaiters; and still talk tommyrot through the length and breadth of the land."
From Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham
