Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Trite, insipid, or simplistic writing, speech, or conceptualization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Trademark A form of cereal for infants.
- noun A diet that does not require chewing.
- noun Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything overly
bland orsimplistic , especiallyspeech orwriting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun worthless or oversimplified ideas
- noun a soft form of cereal for infants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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That he has persisted, and done a masterful job of using their attempts to silence him or manipulate his information into pablum is to his credit.
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How long have we been getting pablum from the “Eyewitless News” teams, both national and local?
Favorite Film Friday: Network « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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How long have we been getting pablum from the “Eyewitless News” teams, both national and local?
A Progressive on the Prairie » Favorite Film Friday: Network » Print 2010
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The most compelling lure of NDS pablum is that it's … pablum.
Controlled Pathways 2008
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The most compelling lure of NDS pablum is that it's … pablum.
Controlled Pathways 2008
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It's coming from already-certified researchers out there working every day in the fields discovering that the pablum is garbage.
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Moreover it is that consuming hatred, that ability to have any crap shoveled down your throat and you gulp it like pablum, that is dividing this country.
"What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Moreover it is that consuming hatred, that ability to have any crap shoveled down your throat and you gulp it like pablum, that is dividing this country.
"What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House..." Ann Althouse 2008
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hdhouse saidMoreover it is that consuming hatred, that ability to have any crap shoveled down your throat and you gulp it like pablum, that is dividing this country.
"What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Exactly the kind of pablum that drhunt can process.
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand? 2010
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