pooh-pooh

Example Sentences

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Try as the studios might to pooh-pooh the possibility of artificial intelligence taking over work formerly done by writers and actors, their own high-level AI-related job postings give them away.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

I think we all pooh-pooh broadcast these days, but I am the showrunner I am because of broadcast, without a doubt.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021

If you pooh-pooh the credentialed authorities, but then hop into obedience to someone else who says they know, you’re totally missing the point of the Kiesenhofer principle.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2021

My grandfather is stunned into a momentary silence, then says, “Einstein published a long time ago, too. Are you gonna pooh-pooh him?”

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm