trumpery

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}]
    

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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Trumpery \Trump"er*y\, a.
   Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little
   ring." --Thackeray.
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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