trumpery
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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
This case has been called a trumpery one, but on the other hand ... it is a very vexatious thing to have a servant suddenly whisked off in the middle of her morning's work.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's all trumpery; anyone can see that at a glance.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Is it in the whitewashing of the battlements, the mending of the roads, the fountains, and all such trumperies?
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
These mountebanks at one end of their stage place their trunk, which is replenished with a world of new-fangled trumperies.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
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
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
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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