claptrap

Example Sentences

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You've got your head full of claptraps and tantrums till you haven't a grain of sense belonging to you.

From The American Senator by Trollope, Anthony

Sir Julius Benedict remarks that 'at this period mechanical dexterity, musical claptraps, skips from one part of the piano to another, endless shakes and arpeggios, were the order of the day.'

From Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Rowbotham, Francis Jameson

The audience, however, are warned not to expect claptraps, or personal satire.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

A play of this class, which, in the midst of all its absurdities and claptraps, had much of good in it, was called "Le Maudit des Mers."

From The Paris Sketch Book by Thackeray, William Makepeace

All the old claptraps which he had heard so often of late, and which he took care to rehearse over and over again!

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred