[syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trumpery \Trump"er*y\, a.
Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little
ring." --Thackeray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trumpery \Trump"er*y\, n. [F. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to
deceive. See Trump to trick.]
1. Deceit; fraud. [Obs.] --Grenewey.
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2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense;
falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence,
things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
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The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
for state to catch these thieves. --Shak.
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Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not
all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition
was driven out of the world. --South.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
trumpery
n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
codswallop]
2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal,
falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense,
trumpery]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "trumpery":
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, base,
bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bravery,
bric-a-brac, bunkum, bushwa, chaff, cheesy, chicken feed,
chickenshit, chiffon, claptrap, clinquant, common, details,
double-talk, drivel, drool, festoons, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee,
finery, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness,
frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froth, froufrou,
fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, gaiety, galimatias, gammon, gaudery,
gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gilding, gilt, gimcrackery,
gingerbread, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hokum, humbug, jabber,
jargon, knickknackery, malarkey, mean, minutiae, mumbo jumbo,
narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver,
paltry, paste, peanuts, pinchbeck, poor, prate, prattle, rant,
rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, rubbishy, shoddy,
skimble-skamble, small beer, small change, stuff and nonsense,
stultiloquence, superfluity, tinsel, trappings, trash, trashy,
trickery, trifles, trivia, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle,
vaporing, waffling