pooh-pooh

variants also pooh

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Recent Examples of pooh-pooh National Weather Service debunks woolly bear forecasting abilities Of course, the National Weather Service has come along to pooh-pooh the woolly bear's winter foresight, with its science and facts. Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024 No wonder his officers pooh-pooh Haiti’s gangs as amateurs compared to their previous foes, like Al Shabaab – though the al Qaeda affiliate hasn’t been entirely vanquished back home in Kenya. Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024 Experts in the wind-power industry pooh-pooh such warnings. Peter Fairley, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2010 Still others pooh-pooh the suggestion that British voters would make decisions at the ballot box based on the political direction of another country, even one as close and influential as the United States. Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pooh-pooh
Verb
  • Some critics of President Biden may dismiss his recent apology of the federal Indian boarding schools as a strategy to win votes in what was a tight presidential election race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
  • But other Republicans push back on the criticism of Selzer, saying the campaign should not outright dismiss the poll’s findings.
    Julia Manchester, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Despite high-profile endorsements and millions of dollars spent on advertising, Colorado voters rejected Initiative 131.
    Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
  • In 2018, Arizona voters overwhelmingly rejected school vouchers.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Tech company CEOs who largely sat on the sidelines for the presidential election sent their congratulations Wednesday to President-elect Donald Trump, ignoring Trump’s history of threats against some of them and joining their peer Elon Musk in welcoming Trump back to power.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Lucy, of course, totally ignores this advice and tries to save the first two victims of the serial killer – Brian and Val.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Pooh-pooh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pooh-pooh. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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