trumpery
Example Sentences
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From the start, trumpery was not to be trusted.
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 Equity charges, he announced, were "trumpery," the work of "publicity-starved" actors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now there's as handsome a piece of trumpery as one often sees," tying a delicate crimson silk manta about him—"as I'm a sinner I'll carry that home to Nell Gray!—Ha!
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
