claptrap

Example Sentences

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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

"I think talk of constitutional conventions and all sort of academic claptrap frankly to me doesn't seem to be in tune with the guys trying to run this camp."

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2021

With irritatingly detached narration from British actress Lesley Manville, we are asked to view Darby’s love life through a prism of statistics and quasi-scientific claptrap.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2020

A recluse story contained more sense, but Royal thought the army part was claptrap.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead