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  • verb Present participle of bullshit.

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Examples

  • Palin's truly pyrotechnic dismantling of syntax seems to me to be a desperate & only partly conscious effort to mask her ignorance - what high school & college students knowingly call bullshitting (as a term of art) when they write papers on books they haven't read.

    Sharp Sand 2008

  • Like I said, I really hope that you bill hourly for that kind of bullshitting skill — but if so, I also hope that you get struck off soon. ohm says:

    Matthew Yglesias » How Waterboarding Was Done 2010

  • The fact that they ARE "bullshitting" means they will easily strangle you "Ron Paulitos" in your own "lbertarian" guts.

    La Realidad: Romney "suspends" his "presidential campaign." 2008

  • OMG how I love using arcane terms for "bullshitting," why aren't you more impressed at how my exegesis is better than anyone else's?.

    The Atheist Experience 2008

  • Just asking, does anyone here bullshitting about con law really believe that any judges at the appellate level function in this way?

    Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010

  • Well, to be fair, their work mostly involves bullshitting wallstreet analysts, so they might be doing it from their golf carts via a cellphone.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is Stimulus Impossible 2010

  • Story behind this basically was my dad was bullshitting a woman and her friends.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • At the time, I thought he was bullshitting me to raise my confidence or something, but when I walk up to the bar now, she shoves a scotch in my face, free of charge.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • He spent years and years bullshitting his way through the Martial Arts world and it was always implied he was Special Forces as is it is implied to this very day.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • It has to do with you bullshitting yourself about the quality of your work and wanting to bullshit others in the same way.

    Matthew Yglesias » Marc Thiessen: Obama is Too Good at Killing Terrorists 2010

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