trumpery

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

This case has been called a trumpery one, but on the other hand ... it is a very vexatious thing to have a servant suddenly whisked off in the middle of her morning's work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Do they imagine that I either knew or cared for their trumpery wager!

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

You have got all our copra on board, and a good stock of native trumperies, and I should recommend you to be off, both for your own sake and ours.

From The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

Now as we have told the success of the trumperies and cruelties of our own kings, and other great personages: so we find, that God is everywhere the same God.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot

Formerly there were the village constable, the district clerk, trumperies, requisitions, and taxations; for then it was the gentry who were the guardians.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak

Her principles are fixed, she is above these trumperies.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge