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

Bruno recalls the anguish of his early loves, his failure with his son, and cannot keep the distant memory of these trumpery things, even now, from shredding his heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had just noticed two of her own shop-girls going into Bence's to buy his trumpery.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)

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 Lamb, Mary

One of these trumperies came through the excessive use of ribbons, a use which gave much charm to women's dress, but which ever gave to men's garments a finicky look.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

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 Eliot, Charles William

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

I was compelled therefore to lay hands on these trumperies.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius