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  • Generally poohpoohed by most devout Halenheads, I find this their most endearing effort.

    Chuck Klosterman on Rock Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • But my Mom is coming to visit, and while we never had air conditioning in our cars as kids, and she poohpoohed our desire for such, now I'll hear endlessly if I don't have it in good repair.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Bardiac 2009

  • Generally poohpoohed by most devout Halenheads, I find this their most endearing effort.

    Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003

  • This person who, in the intervals of her profession as midwife, carried on a kind of surreptitious practice, poohpoohed

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • In both cases, headquarters, FBI headquarters in Washington, poohpoohed it and neglected it, didn't share it, and sort of dismissed it.

    CNN Transcript May 26, 2002 2002

  • Generally poohpoohed by most devout Halenheads, I find this their most endearing effort.

    The Jack Factor Chuck Klosterman 2001

  • On the one hand, they have been poohpoohed by the men of business who pride themselves on being the representatives of practicality; while, on the other hand, they have been excommunicated by the classical scholars, in their capacity of Levites in charge of the ark of culture and monopolists of liberal education.

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • On the one hand, they have been poohpoohed by the men of business who pride themselves on being the representatives of practicality; while, on the other hand, they have been excommunicated by the classical scholars, in their capacity of Levites in charge of the ark of culture and monopolists of liberal education.

    Science and Culture 1909

  • At that time most of the Conservative papers poohpoohed the possibility of an appeal to arms, but Scaife's father, admittedly a great authority on South African affairs, had told his son a fight was inevitable.

    The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

  • He planned to beach her on the strip of sand at the bottom of the mangrove swamp, and to make his way to the Standish house through the hidden path whose existence Milo had that day poohpoohed.

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

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