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tommyrot

[tom-ee-rot] / ˈtɒm iˌrɒt /


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Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Lalage was, in my opinion, herself guilty of something very like the sin of tommyrot when she mocked another bishop for a sermon he had preached on "Empire Day."

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.




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