trumpery

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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

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

Do they imagine that I either knew or cared for their trumpery wager!

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James