trumpery
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But we hardly need a lexical campaign when trumpery exists.
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
Lord! you can’t think what grand folks he and his wife have become of late years, and all along of a trumpery lil which some body has written about them.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by George Henry Borrow
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 Boris Pilniak
I was compelled therefore to lay hands on these trumperies.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Her principles are fixed, she is above these trumperies.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
I will repay you, upon honor, when we young fellows return from France, all laden with rings and brooches and such trumperies like your Norfolkshire pedlars at Christmas-tide.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell
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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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