trumpery
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As these meanings took hold, trumpery was also being used as it is today: for nonsense, malarkey, and bunk.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2016
It was both trumpeted as a global achievement and dismissed as overly commercialized "trumpery."
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2012
When Upstairs, Downstairs was first broadcast on Sunday 10 October 1971, Britain was struggling with decimalisation and that new-fangled trumpery of a gaudy Satan, colour telly.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2010
The result of this trumpery is that poor William Holden, as the producer, must act far dumber than we know this intelligent actor to be.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of them beg, some of them hawk trumpery articles.
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
Her principles are fixed, she is above these trumperies.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
I quarrel with my poverty only because I can give so little, so seldom, and then never more than ridiculous small trumperies.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
I will repay you, upon honor, when we young fellows return from France, all laden with rings and brooches and such trumperies like your Norfolkshire pedlars at Christmas-tide.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell
These mountebanks at one end of their stage place their trunk, which is replenished with a world of new-fangled trumperies.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
The Count looked at Dumiger while he applied the word trumperies to those results which the latter had so impatiently striven for,—for which he had been laboring night and day.
From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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