tommyrot
Example Sentences
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The fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was tommyrot, cried he to the press, for critics to complain because the plan did not aim at economy as well as efficiency.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Our object is to check by every legitimate means the spread of tommyrot in this country and the world generally.
From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.
