trumpery

Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

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

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

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.

“My play would have drawn twice as much without all the meretricious trumpery they’ve bedizened it with!”