claptrap
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For all these women, it took having terrible, even traumatizing experiences in these movements to make them realize that perhaps it’s not feminist claptrap to believe in equal rights and bodily autonomy.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
And even as I try to dress it up here with some kind of detached, anthropological pseudo-intellectual claptrap, I’m still jumping straight into the muddy pigpile that’s been going on for weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
For all the claptrap over the decades about booting people out, this country’s leaders quickly realize their error and bust out the proverbial welcome mat just as quickly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
In a memorable scene, he barges into a lecture on anatomy and exposes the professor’s teachings as claptrap.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2022
His eyes were soft and irisless and brown, and suddenly I saw Roskus watching me from behind all his whitefolks’ claptrap of uniforms and politics and Harvard manner, diffident, secret, inarticulate and sad.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing claptrap
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