trumpery

From the start, trumpery was not to be trusted.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2016

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

Montesquieu, a writer in most respects of enlarged views, holds that it is beneath the dignity of governments to interfere with such trumpery things as the regulation of weights and measures.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

"And yet," said he, "it is for such trumperies men sacrifice their lives, sometimes their characters."

From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various

Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene—in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara.

From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Formerly there were the village constable, the district clerk, trumperies, requisitions, and taxations; for then it was the gentry who were the guardians.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

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