tommyrot
Example Sentences
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How much we scorn the little crumbs that are thrown our way, such as the $300 mustering-out pay and all such meaningless tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, Barry." said Ike, "in my mind this is actual tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is it not astonishing that any person intelligent enough to teach school would talk such tommyrot to students and look serious while doing so?
From In His Image by William Jennings Bryan
