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bullshit

[bool-shit] / ˈbʊlˌʃɪt /


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In the face of too much comfort, Remi turned friends against Margery, made up rumors, middle-school bullshit.

From Slate Jan. 27, 2024

The second is the way the logic of the fallback strategies within corporate bullshit flow easily from one to the next, like a skillful salesperson's pitch.

From Salon Oct. 29, 2023

I teach a class on bullshit — an act, often with full confidence, intended to persuade, with no allegiance to truth.

From Seattle Times Mar. 31, 2023

Inscryption cuts out most of the bullshit that comes with traditional deckbuilding games and allows me to get to the good stuff: building a deck so overpowered that I feel like a god.

From The Verge Nov. 2, 2021

People go out of their way to tell me they think Khalil’s death is bullshit, but that Remy’s reason for protesting is bullshit too.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2025

What follows is scientific bullshitting where someone picks one or two papers out of 10,000, and hopes that you go away thinking Covid is just a common cold or whatever.

From The Guardian Aug. 1, 2020

As indicated above, ordinary lying involves intentional false claims about the world, while bullshitting involves intentionally false claims and representations about the bullshitter themselves.

From Salon Feb. 24, 2019

When Stephanopoulos reminded Trump that “they’re already there,” the candidate forged ahead like a school kid bullshitting his way through an oral exam that he had not bothered to prepare for.

From The New Yorker Aug. 3, 2016

Second floor was nothing but a hallway where humans were talking and bullshitting.

From Time Magazine Archive




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