trumpery

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From the start, trumpery was not to be trusted.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2016

Today, trumpery can refer to just about any sort of balderdash, but it used to refer specifically to religious or woo-woo ideas.

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

Put up thy wife's trumpery, good noble marquis, And home again, home again take thy career, To provide her fresh straw, and a chamber that dark is.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John