(interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) But instead of investigating it, they just pooh-poohed it and I never heard anything about the tape again.
(2) If it were a choice between Manchester United and Tottenham, he would choose the former, and the knowledge of this might explain why some employees at White Hart Lane had started to pooh-pooh the idea of Van Gaal coming to them even before Moyes' dismissal.
(3) He is happy there" - considering the lack of enthusiasm with which his client moves from the edge of the area to the six-yard box, it's no surprise that Dimitar Berbatov's Mr 15% Emil Dantchev has pooh-poohed the notion of the Bulgarian setting off for Bayern Munich or AC Milan.
(4) Pooh-poohing pigeon I’m sure Finns won’t appreciate a lecture from a citizen of a country that wiped out its wolves four centuries ago, and I was reminded of our own attitude towards killing wild animals outside my local butcher’s the other day.
(5) Kazan felt sex tapes had added something different, but Radcliffe pooh-poohed the theory.
(6) BBC Worldwide has sold an 85% stake in BBC Audiobooks, which publishes titles including Richard Burton's Under Milk Wood, Winnie the Pooh and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a deal understood to be worth at least £10m.
(7) What you are seeing is a guy who in public everybody pooh-poohs, but in private every guy says: that's the life I want.
(8) A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy.
(9) Berlin is already pooh-poohing the notion, unwilling to "mutualise" liability for other country's savers or banks any time soon.
(10) When the No Turning Back group (of Tory young Turks such as me) urged her to adopt our idea for grant-maintained schools, she pooh-poohed our political naivety (before eventually adopting the policy).
(11) FCO ministers in replies to me and other MPs have also pooh-poohed the idea of actually doing something to hold Russia to account over Magnitsky's death.
(12) Great for helping with imaginary games, playing Pooh sticks, building things."
(13) From the pile of canvases stacked up on the trestle table, and hung from its metal framework, the buyer had selected Kids on Guns – two sweet little children standing on a hillock of guns and bombs – and Pooh Bear, a version of AA Milne's winsome creation sitting weeping under a tree, honey pot (labelled with a dollar sign) discarded and his foot stuck in a bear trap.
(14) Funny and likable, even when he errs it's cute, like a shaved Winnie the Pooh accidentally eating all the honey.
(15) Saturday 8 September 2001 found Simon and Elizabeth Turner in John Lewis trying to decide whether, in addition to the bottles, the bedding and the baby monitors, their imminent first child really needed a complete Winnie the Pooh dining set.
(16) It's natural to pooh-pooh spring stats, especially for a pitcher of Lincecum's caliber, but after a wild 2012, eyebrows were raised in Scottsdale , and so this first start would be vital.
(17) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be… the owl from Winnie the Pooh.
(18) One of the best scenes in Saving Mr Banks shows Travers, played by Thompson, overwhelmed with horror to find that her LA hotel room has been stuffed with soft cuddly toys from the Disney Corporation's celluloid bestiary, including Winnie-the-Pooh.
(19) For younger kids there’s a Winnie-the-Pooh-themed 100 Aker Wood and an indoor play barn for rainy days.
(20) Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was fourth, and Winnie the Pooh fifth, with the top 10 rounded out by Alice in Wonderland , The BFG , The Wind in the Willows , the Mr Men series and a third Dahl title, Matilda .
Poor
Definition:
(superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
(superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
(superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
(superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
(superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
(superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
(superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
(superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
(superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
(superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
(superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
(9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
(12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
(14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
(20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.