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
Is there a remedy for claptrap like the BMJ article?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024
Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it “a sappy romance novel, gussied up with some sentimental claptrap about the emotional life of animals and lots of Walleresque hooey about men and women.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
A tiny idea was beginning to worm its way into Grayson’s head; he could barely feel it as it brushed by all the claptrap in his brain.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing claptrap
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