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
Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented 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
Safonoff says turns out to be as idiotic a dream as all this tommyrot of yours?”
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
