And Spluethner having pooh-poohed this, Zimmermann rode his hypothesis with redoubled zeal.
I appealed to a professor who had concentrated the best years of his life to the problem I proposed to solve,--he pooh-poohed my scheme.
She quite pooh-poohed the suggestion that Hugh Davidson might be dead, as the letter had come back.
Blanche boldly suggested a locksmith, but the doctor, unable to see any necessity that the box should be opened, pooh-poohed the idea.
I told him I was convinced you would leave Guernsey again, but he pooh-poohed that.
Your mother and I wanted to charter the Rescue, and send her over to fetch you home as soon as the worst of the storm was over, but my uncle pooh-poohed it.
You didn't want this meeting because you pooh-poohed the match.
For the rest, he pooh-poohed the idea of the Law intervening.
I pooh-poohed Harding's fears, but when I left him to go to my own billet I pondered over his words, and knew that there was truth in them.
Eileen pooh-poohed those rules, and said Franz von Kreuzenach had broken his for her sake.
I have tried darkly to hint this to the boys, but have been so decisively pooh-poohed that I resolve not to allude to the subject again.
Once or twice I have tried to tell him so, and he has gently pooh-poohed me.
With Lettice he had pooh-poohed her exalted ideas and thought them womanish; in Nan, he was inclined to call them beautiful.
He it was who pooh-poohed the necessity of arming Kimberley, and we accordingly lost no time in setting him up in the game of Siege Aunt Sally as a popular target for our rancour.
The public graciously approved of this watchfulness, but pooh-poohed the danger of invasion.
So Lady Ascot was greatly pooh-poohed by the other wiseacres, she being right all the time.
Frank rather pished and poohed at all these preparations of grandeur; he felt that when the ceremony took place he would look like the ornamental calf in the middle of it; but, on the whole, he bore his martyrdom patiently.
It had been suggested that John Minute himself had secured him his sergeant's stripes, but that was a theory which was pooh-poohed by people who knew that the sergeant had little that was good to say of his supposed patron.
He had pooh-poohed on this occasion all suggestion that it was the presence of Frank Merrill which had induced him to exercise the veto which his extraordinary position gave to him.
He looked pale, but pooh-poohed injury or the idea of interfering with his audience's design; and Mahony saw him shouldered and borne off.
He pooh-poohed Mahony's intention of staying till the defaulting witness was found; disapproved, too, the offer of a reward.
We fraternized immediately, and they all pooh-poohed the battle, as such an old story that it would be absurd to ride back to the field.
I cross-questioned Jake, and got out of him all he knew, and then pooh-poohed the story, and told them Catty must have been dreaming.
This attitude attracted me enormously; for I recalled the standpoint of the same paper in the days before the War--how it ridiculed the alleged German menace and pooh-poohed the idea of the existence of hostile German elements in our midst.
The latter pooh-poohed the constable, who he alleged had not yet discovered the whereabouts of Jim, and suggested that a few armed citizens should make the chase themselves.
Goethe had pooh-poohed and smitten the table with his "stein" in denial.
Why, he quite pooh-poohed the idea of a dinner-party the other night, though I planned it for his pleasure.
Mr. Mayne pooh-poohed the whole thing so entirely that the women could only speak of it among themselves.
Here was a man who would not believe what he could not understand, who wanted "pipes and a meter," and for want of comprehensible outward signs pooh-poohed the great new discovery.
When this problem was placed before the committee of young people, they pooh-poohed the matter.
It is likely they pooh-poohed the whole affair, for, strange to say, when the purser tried to corroborate the story with the dead man's ticket the document was nowhere to be found.
But when she suggested that to Slyne he pooh-poohed the idea as absurd, and told her she ought to be very glad to have got rid of her rival so easily.
Slyne had pooh-poohed all her timid protests against his lavish expenditure on her account, and had also provided for Captain Dove and Ambrizette in their degree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poohed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
