trumpery

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

In such a world of trumpery, in an unreal city, a candidate appears and says, “I’ll make you a deal.”

From New York Times

I felt old and depleted and tired from worrying about my eldest son who works in a major hospital’s emergency room, tired of mendacious White House trumpetings and trumpery.

From Washington Post

“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