trumpery
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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
As these meanings took hold, trumpery was also being used as it is today: for nonsense, malarkey, and bunk.
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 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.
Vocabulary lists containing trumpery
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The Tempest
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"An Honest Thief" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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