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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trumpery \trump"ery\, n. f. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to
deceive. see trump to trick.
1. deceit; fraud. obs. --grenewey.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
the trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
for state to catch these thieves. --shak.
1913 webster
upon the coming of christ, very much, though not
all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition
was driven out of the world. --south.
1913 webster
see also:
trump
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trumpery \trump"ery\, a.
worthless or deceptive in character. "a trumpery little
ring." --thackeray.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
trumpery
n 1: nonsensical talk or writing syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe,
trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop
2: ornamental objects of no great value syn: falderal, folderol,
frills, gimcrackery, gimcracks, nonsense
see also:
folderol rubbish tripe trash wish-wash applesauce
codswallop falderal frills gimcrackery gimcracks
nonsense
- [4] : 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
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...Dictionary Definition of trumpery. Encyclopedia ... trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling ... ..
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...The adjective "trumpery" has 1 senses.. 1. tinsel, trumpery -- gaudy ... "trumpery" has 2 senses.. 1. folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash ... ..
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