trumpery

Example Sentences

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Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

From Salon

It means repudiating false equivalences and "both sidesism" that gives equal weight to trumpery and truth.

From Salon

“My play would have drawn twice as much without all the meretricious trumpery they’ve bedizened it with!”

From New York Times

But it would be easy to pick the word of the Presidential race so far: trumpery.

From Salon

"The trash remains below the red carpet, and Francis is not coming for the tidy and whitewashed trumpery of the event, nor the colorful confetti."

From US News