trumpery

Example Sentences

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A 1789 example in some travel writing by Hester Lynch Piozzi gives a sense of trumpery’s non-value: “A heap of trumpery fit to furnish out the shop of a Westminster pawnbroker.”

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

Bruno recalls the anguish of his early loves, his failure with his son, and cannot keep the distant memory of these trumpery things, even now, from shredding his heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people sit in their doorways, or outside in the streets, which receive hardly more light than the damp and gloomy chambers, and grub amid their old trumpery, or patch and sew diligently.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.