trumpery
Example Sentences
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But we hardly need a lexical campaign when trumpery exists.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2016
Today, trumpery can refer to just about any sort of balderdash, but it used to refer specifically to religious or woo-woo ideas.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2016
It was both trumpeted as a global achievement and dismissed as overly commercialized "trumpery."
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2012
When Upstairs, Downstairs was first broadcast on Sunday 10 October 1971, Britain was struggling with decimalisation and that new-fangled trumpery of a gaudy Satan, colour telly.
From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2010
We are not entitled to such trumpery pride.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.