trumpery
Example Sentences
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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
From the start, trumpery was not to be trusted.
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
I had sacrificed half a bushel of trumpery, when Lady Besford was ushered into my dressing-room.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
