trumpery

Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

Today, trumpery can refer to just about any sort of balderdash, but it used to refer specifically to religious or woo-woo ideas.

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

His method of doing business is like the trumpery he offers to the public.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

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

Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene—in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara.

From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Her principles are fixed, she is above these trumperies.

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

Your poetry is like no other:—those cursed Dryads and Pagan trumperies of modern verse have put me out of conceit of the very name of poetry.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb

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