tommyrot

Example Sentences

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"The big rumors about meeting here to discuss stopping the bombing or to pull out," he said, "are just pure, absolute tommyrot and fiction."

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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.

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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

Oh, look here, you know, this is all tommyrot!

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.