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How to use pooh-poohed in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pooh-poohed? Here are some examples.

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He also pooh-poohed suggestions that low-fare carriers are making traditional carriers obsolete.
He pooh-poohed the idea of running to the store to get pre-party and post-party supplies.
She's as baffled as I am that restorative justice, as a concept, is so widely ignored or pooh-poohed.
When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense.
The golden jubilee had been looked forward to with relish by royalists and pooh-poohed by metropolitan media pundits.
This was thought up by the neoconservatives who saw no bounds to US power and pooh-poohed any sort of concerns about overextension.
My editors over the years had always pooh-poohed my suggestion for a media section or page as boring for readers, who'd see it as navel gazing.
One study even pooh-poohed the games of duck-duck-goose and musical chairs, suggesting they inflict emotional damage.
Granma went home and told her husband what the clairvoyant had said, but he pooh-poohed the idea, and so no action was taken.
Historian Charles MacDonald has pooh-poohed the idea of a cover-up.
Unmoved we stared at a load of cold, geometrical abstractions, pooh-poohed the idea of living in such a gallery and, on the brink of calling it a day, stoically suffered on.
At a conference in London the following week, a senior retired U.S. Air Force commander pooh-poohed counterstealth efforts.
Examples from Classical Literature
But her father, who called himself agnostic, had quietly pooh-poohed his wife's solicitousness regarding the little virtues.
The phenomenon, however, whether credited or pooh-poohed, was a drawing card.
Sir Charles pooh-poohed this view, and the two friends were sharp with one another in discussing it.
A BID by councillors to get Dudley's public toilets reopened has been pooh-poohed because of the borough's cuts programme.
Rose was troubled with nausea, but Martin pooh-poohed, as childish, the notion of dropping some of her responsibilities.
But instead of investigating it, they just pooh-poohed it and I never heard anything about the tape again.
When green with youth, I harboured an ambition to write for the chain, but they pooh-poohed my edgy prose in favour of more sugary verses.
Gilani pooh-poohed the opposition demand and asserted that only the parliament can send him home.
Judge Scott pooh-poohed and laughed, but not with reason, for it was in his last days on the bench that Jim Hall had stood before him and received sentence.
Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits.
However, he pooh-poohed suggestions that Petraeus had compromised national security while in a compromising position with the brainy fitness buff, the report said.
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