claptrap
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Is there a remedy for claptrap like the BMJ article?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2024
A public defender in Virginia said, "I have never heard of any of that claptrap in my jurisdiction."
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2023
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
"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
“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
Vocabulary lists containing claptrap
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