Verb (used with object) : He pooh-poohed all their superstitious fears. From Dictionary.com.
I guess the feds aren ` t going to pooh-pooh this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2008] Reference
You're inclined to pooh-pooh, and to say I am wrong?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891] Reference
Some may pooh-pooh social-emotional skills as "soft.". From Wordnik.com. [Cornelia Grumman: Presidential Candidates on Early Education] Reference
They pooh-pooh the idea of the Mecklenburg Declaration. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, May 16, 1987. Interview C-0035. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Yield to their customs, and not pooh-pooh their amusements. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And I would sort of pooh-pooh it if I'm honest with myself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006] Reference
"When doctors don't have an answer, they like to pooh-pooh it.". From Wordnik.com. [A Blow-Up Over 'Bioidenticals'] Reference
Dont you pooh-pooh me! and he sed, Who will I pooh-pooh then? and. From Wordnik.com. [Deer Godchild] Reference
But the king of pooh-pooh is too busy chasing down imaginary woo woo. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Woo Woo Is a Step Ahead of (Bad) Science] Reference
Of course, many here will pooh-pooh the scenario and not want to answer. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Marino: Maybe Hamas is Not so Stupid] Reference
Congressional appropriators pooh-pooh the importance of any earmark reform. From Wordnik.com. [Hold the Pork] Reference
University professors are inclined to pooh-pooh them as things beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
But he seemed to pooh-pooh your report, and he played down your information. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003] Reference
But Tracey and Stacey didn't have a chance to pooh-pooh Billy's transformation. From Wordnik.com. [Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession] Reference
The company recently was hired by CNN to pooh-pooh its own Operation Tailwind story. From Wordnik.com. [Lucky Pierre! Lady Fairfax's Penthouse Finds a Buyer for Almost $25 Million] Reference
People can pooh-pooh these polls all they want and claim that this is all Hillary spin. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary And Rudy Way Ahead In Pennsylvania And New Jersey] Reference
KING: Yes, I have always wondered when doctors pooh-pooh something where someone is helped. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's the Best Way to Combat Arthritis? - August 29, 2000] Reference
KING: Raleigh, when you first contacted the detective, did they tend to pooh-pooh this idea?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2004] Reference
"All right, sister; I will never pooh-pooh anything you say, but this time you are at fault.". From Wordnik.com. [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference
FLORES: You can pooh-pooh all you want, Miles, if you -- and if that's your mood for the day. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2006] Reference
I agreed, because when I first mention Al Gore, some people tend to pooh-pooh him immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Madrak: If We Build It, He Will Run] Reference
It is all very well to pooh-pooh Mr. George and to prove him mistaken in his political economy. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Count on anonymous intelligence officials to pooh-pooh the evidence in the next morning's newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Struggle] Reference
I sed, pooh-pooh the Kaiser, and he sed, The Kaiser wont let me pooh-pooh him and you leave him alone!. From Wordnik.com. [Deer Godchild] Reference
There are multiple examples in this, if they ` re true, where he would pooh-pooh women that came before him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2006] Reference
And if someone sees something that they think is out of place, you know, don't just, you know, pooh-pooh it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2009] Reference
The cost of it she thought would be just way too much, and she really, really seemed to pooh-pooh that idea. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009] Reference
This is an unusual August, though, Larry because, look, I'm not going to pooh-pooh what's happening with the mortgage market. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007] Reference
The Canadian-born Krall is wildly popular with the masses, yet music critics regularly pooh-pooh her for clinging to the past. From Wordnik.com. [Interview: In With The Old] Reference
So while we talk about bounce and a lot of people pooh-pooh it back and forth, the polls may not be capturing the whole story. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2004] Reference
I asked one of the lawyers for Royal Caribbean about those congressional hearings, and she seemed to pooh-pooh the whole thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2006] Reference
GRACE: But Tad, all along, from the very beginning, before they agreed to excavate, police seemed to pooh-pooh this whole idea. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2006] Reference
But addiction specialists pooh-pooh the idea that people can be "addicted" to soda, in the sense that it interferes with normal life. From Wordnik.com. [Attack of the Diet Cokes] Reference
Australians pooh-pooh these prints and entreat the stranger within their gates to believe that they are despised and without influence. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Dear old GUS (Beau GUS he is always called on account of his singularly attractive appearance) went so far as to pooh-pooh what I said. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891] Reference
Also I would say that if your kids start to have little imaginary visitors at the breakfast table or something, I wouldn't pooh-pooh that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Shirley MacLaine Discusses `The Camino' - May 24, 2000] Reference
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