tommyrot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tommyrot
Example Sentences
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Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
How much we scorn the little crumbs that are thrown our way, such as the $300 mustering-out pay and all such meaningless tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was tommyrot, cried he to the press, for critics to complain because the plan did not aim at economy as well as efficiency.
From Time Magazine Archive
He drew the line at what he defined as social tommyrot, and he drew it more and more sharply.
From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto
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