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

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

When she found that the thing was trumpery, she, of course, jumped to the conclusion that I'd been having her--trying to gain kudos for giving her something worth having at the cheapest possible rate.

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Marsh, Richard