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claptrap

[klap-trap] / ˈklæpˌtræp /
NOUN
empty talk
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STRONG


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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

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

Or, for that matter, the high-concept claptrap offered up at Marni, where Francesco Risso went on a quest to top his immersive be-in of last season with entirely apposite results.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2022

“Well, Eben, what’s this claptrap I hear about the Seven Wonders of the World?”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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