What's the difference between bullshit and guff?

Bullshit


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
  • (2) It’s bullshit, I was on official visits, working at the US embassy.
  • (3) "We don't really want the bullshit and optimistic stuff that Michael has written ..." • Phil Jones, UAE, to Jonathan Overpeck, Arizona University, 8 February 2008 (email 3062) Jones is referring to new research by Michael Schultz of the University of Bremen – not, as many at first assumed, Michael Mann.
  • (4) We can’t just sit back, fold our arms and allow this bullshit to continue going on.” Nigerian historian Max Siollun believes the Biafra civil war, which left more than 1 million dead but did not directly affect some parts of the country, fostered a reluctance to document conflict.
  • (5) It doesn’t matter that he thinks he is.” ‘His populism is bullshit’ In a political landscape often shaped by the tweets of a twitchy-fingered president, the Democrats must find a message that resonates.
  • (6) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
  • (7) As for the argument that they're being removed to protect them, that's just bullshit."
  • (8) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
  • (9) It knows bullshit when it sees it, soon tires of the same old same old and hungers for something new all the time.
  • (10) It doesn’t just expose the unresolved issues from Ferguson or Staten Island from last year; it exposes the bullshit of how black people are still fighting for issues as basic as the right to vote .
  • (11) This discount factor is probably more resonant with progressive voters than conservative voters – but bear in mind the budget period has been incredibly damaging for Abbott in what I’ll crudely term the “I call bullshit” frame.
  • (12) That is the happeningthing, not whatever bullshit the papers tell us.
  • (13) The creepiest feature is a daily birthday cartoon starring some kiddywink from the viewing audience: parents upload a photo of their baby, whose head then appears on an animated body, taking part in some bullshit adventure about a missing cake.
  • (14) Sometimes its initiatives look to me like self-serving bullshit.
  • (15) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
  • (16) But Facebook players don't put up with that bullshit."
  • (17) "This 10% figure is bullshit," said one camper, who did not wish to be named but said he was from Birmingham.
  • (18) There is a case to be made against Trump that his populism is bullshit,” Favreau said, citing the nomination of billionaires and former Goldman Sachs executives to cabinet positions, which will be the wealthiest in US history, and moves to unravel the Dodd-Frank reform in a boon to Wall Street.
  • (19) I am happy to ramble on about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, but veggie dogs are some real bullshit “But Madeleine,” you say, “hot dogs are disgusting!
  • (20) December 16, 2014 Moral of the story: If it looks like bullshit, it probably is.

Guff


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, we internalise all the guff telling us that poverty is the inevitable result of an individual’s moral decrepitude.
  • (2) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
  • (3) If we cannot talk about redistribution, what is the point of this guff on social mobility?
  • (4) Forget all that ministerial guff about the necessity of cutting the public sector to spur economic growth.
  • (5) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (6) At least it trumps its predecessor thanks to the inclusion of the word ‘girt’, which undercuts all the guff about “golden soil” and being “young and free” by virtue of sounding like an Irishman saying ‘girth’.
  • (7) Forget the guff about the need for further environmental investigation (which in any case has already been done) and about which this carelessly non-green government does not give a fig.
  • (8) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
  • (9) In fact, I don't think there's a single product in the entire cosmetics industry that prompts as much guff from advertisers, PRs and shop assistants as moisturisers, and that really is saying something.
  • (10) But the point needs making: the idea that they are run by sports-phobic softies is up there with all the guff talked about immigration, health and safety and the rest.
  • (11) Cody offers a standing rebuke to all the guff being spouted about a dearth of right-wing comedy.
  • (12) Angling, wildlife and heritage groups on Thursday attacked new proposals for a £34bn tidal barrage across the Severn estuary, with one telling MPs that environmental benefits touted by proponents of the barrage are "spin" and "guff".
  • (13) He needs us to believe that commercial management techniques - performance-related pay, new employment contracts and efficiency targets - are what's needed, rather than sentimental guff about public spirit.
  • (14) The resulting disembodiment of their mouth-guff will have an air of the supernatural or even divine.
  • (15) You know it's ruinous guff and adds nothing to the human experience, but you can't miss an episode.
  • (16) Or as if diversity of leadership and ownership did not really matter, as long as the data-driven, responsively designed new news becomes a radical and successful enough departure from the drab anecdote laden guff put out by those other men.
  • (17) Statements from the insurance industry are vague and nebulous – plenty of reassuring guff about encouraging market conditions, rather than new insurance products we can actually buy.
  • (18) Is it, for all Nick Clegg's guff about "progressive cuts", that the real agenda is to complete the demolition job on welfare states that was started in the 1980s?
  • (19) Tech City and Year of Code may be lovely and shiny, but we need to move beyond the PR guff.
  • (20) <Insert guff about how it might be the stroke of luck he needs to compile a matchwinning 62,867 not out here>.