[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