| The golden jubilee had been looked forward to with relish by royalists and pooh-poohed by metropolitan media pundits. |
| But her father, who called himself agnostic, had quietly pooh-poohed his wife's solicitousness regarding the little virtues. |
| When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense. |
| My editors over the years had always pooh-poohed my suggestion for a media section or page as boring for readers, who'd see it as navel gazing. |
| This was thought up by the neoconservatives who saw no bounds to US power and pooh-poohed any sort of concerns about overextension. |
| One study even pooh-poohed the games of duck-duck-goose and musical chairs, suggesting they inflict emotional damage. |
