pooh poohed

Nonetheless, most archaeologists pooh- poohed the idea, because there was no substantiation for it.

The fact that the IRS use instant messaging to hide internal communications came out more than a year ago, yet it is still pooh poohed by the administration.

For too many years, politicians pooh- poohed the need to clean up India.

On the contrary, they stayed out persistently, and, before they left that gate, heaped on its owner all the contempt, disdain, and scorn which they could express; flung at him all the derisive epithets which four years in the army places at a man's disposal; pooh poohed at his hypocritical regrets; and shaking off the dust of that place from their feet, pushed on to the city, the smoke of which rose to heaven.

She knew that they had been brought up together from childhood and were more like brother and sister than lovers, and had such an idea been suggested to her by any of her friends, she would have pooh poohed it as mere moonshine.