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  • Is it in accord with the profoundest impulses and motives of humanity? but Is it in accord with the current pishposh?

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • Moloch's Sacrifice of the Altar - does such a bumptious and preposterous baggage fill the newspapers with her pishposh and the largest theater in Manhattan with eager dunderheads?

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • It is surely not unworthy of notice that the country of this prophet of Man Thinking is precisely the country in which every sort of dissent from the current pishposh is combated most ferociously, and in which there is the most vigorous existing tendency to suppress free speech altogether.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • He has all of the third-rate German's capacity for unearthing facts, but he doesn't know how either to think or to write, and so his criticism is mere pretence and pishposh.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • Most of this denunciation, of course was frankly idiotic -- the naive pishposh of suburban Methodists, notoriety-seeking college professors, almost illiterate editorial writers, and other such numskulls.

    The Antichrist 1895

  • Most of this denunciation, of course, was frankly idiotic -- the naïve pishposh of suburban Methodists, notoriety-seeking college professors, almost illiterate editorial writers, and other such numskulls.

    The Antichrist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • I also thought that maybe bullshit had, like BS, become acceptable as a slightly stronger variation on nonsense, balderdash, poppycock, and pishposh.

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • I also thought that maybe bullshit had, like BS, become acceptable as a slightly stronger variation on nonsense, balderdash, poppycock, and pishposh.

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • I also thought that maybe bullshit had, like BS, become acceptable as a slightly stronger variation on nonsense, balderdash, poppycock, and pishposh.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2010

  • i am not saying that it is utter pishposh. but i am merely feeling that the theories are a tad too far fetched. oh fine. call me a radical.

    overthefence Diary Entry overthefence 2007

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