trumpery

But we hardly need a lexical campaign when trumpery exists.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2016

A 1789 example in some travel writing by Hester Lynch Piozzi gives a sense of trumpery’s non-value: “A heap of trumpery fit to furnish out the shop of a Westminster pawnbroker.”

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

Trash and trumpery is the highway to beggary.

From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston

Your poetry is like no other:—those cursed Dryads and Pagan trumperies of modern verse have put me out of conceit of the very name of poetry.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb

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

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

"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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird