claptrap
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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
As I’ve reported, one of the nation’s most assiduous dispensers of anti-vaccine claptrap does so from an official perch.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2024
A public defender in Virginia said, "I have never heard of any of that claptrap in my jurisdiction."
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2023
Meade, quite understandably, turned out sadistic, Grand Guignol thrillers as a respite from writing sentimental claptrap such as “A Sweet Girl Graduate” and “The Rebel of the School.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2021
My socks balled up on the hardwood floor made a greater statement than any of their hokey claptrap with the carefully matted frames and big curly signatures in the lower left-hand corners.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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