pooh-poohed

variants also poohed
past tense of pooh-pooh

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pooh-poohed
Verb
  • Scott first attended Arizona State on a partial golf scholarship, but was dismissed from the team after an incident with a visiting recruit.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 18 July 2026
  • In our most recent conversation, Gershman dismissed the account Sebold gave in her memoir and downplayed the parts of her testimony that were more ambiguous.
    Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • The Senate, the upper house where conservatives hold a majority, rejected the bill.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026
  • Born in 1946 amid the bombing of Frankfurt, Ruppert instead developed a psychosexual cosmology that rejected neat distinctions between prey and predator.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • Many are ignored, cause unnecessary delays or are dismissed as noise.
    Subba Rao Katragadda, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • That’s why the thought of moving starter Michael King, closer Mason Miller or southpaw Adrian Morejon shouldn’t be ignored if someone is willing to overpay for one of them.
    Jim Bowden, New York Times, 17 July 2026
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“Pooh-poohed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pooh-poohed. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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