trumpery

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

But we hardly need a lexical campaign when trumpery exists.

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

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 H. G. Somerville

These mountebanks at one end of their stage place their trunk, which is replenished with a world of new-fangled trumperies.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

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

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

I quarrel with my poverty only because I can give so little, so seldom, and then never more than ridiculous small trumperies.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim

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