trumpery

But we hardly need a lexical campaign when trumpery exists.

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

Shaw then revels in an arrant trumpery when he changes before your eyes the course of a contrary wind—the Maid's "miracle" on joining the French forces before Orléans.

From Time Magazine Archive

This trumpery fellow who before the taking of La Brièle had not so much as the bone of a smoked herring to place between his teeth!

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster

Now as we have told the success of the trumperies and cruelties of our own kings, and other great personages: so we find, that God is everywhere the same God.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot

Your poetry is like no other:—those cursed Dryads and Pagan trumperies of modern verse have put me out of conceit of the very name of poetry.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb

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

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

I quarrel with my poverty only because I can give so little, so seldom, and then never more than ridiculous small trumperies.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim