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
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
He had read Thomson’s ‘Seasons,’ which had been described to him as only a trumpery book which could be bought for 1s. 6d. at Stamford.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.
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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