trumpery

As these meanings took hold, trumpery was also being used as it is today: for nonsense, malarkey, and bunk.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2016

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

Why, you're not trusting to that trumpery seal of yours to convince him?

From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey

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

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

I was compelled therefore to lay hands on these trumperies.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

Is it in the whitewashing of the battlements, the mending of the roads, the fountains, and all such trumperies?

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Arthur Wallace Pickard