bullshitting
- present participle of bullshit.
Example Sentences
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The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
The denigration of experts, as I wrote last week, is an essential component to this bullshitting culture, because expertise provides a bulwark against nonsense.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2017
When Stephanopoulos reminded Trump that “they’re already there,” the candidate forged ahead like a school kid bullshitting his way through an oral exam that he had not bothered to prepare for.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2016
Frankfurt’s book “On Bullshit” argues that bullshitting is a more radical attack on truth than lying is: Bullshitting is anything but new to politics, of course.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2015
Second floor was nothing but a hallway where humans were talking and bullshitting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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