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Definition of trumpery in English: trumperynounPlural trumperies ˈtrʌmp(ə)riˈtrəmp(ə)ri mass nounarchaic 1Attractive articles of little value or use. None of your woollen drapery, nor linen drapery, nor any of your frippery or trumpery. I hate ostentation Example sentencesExamples - The 2000 or so mercers included great merchants engaged in international trade and small traders selling trumpery objects from their shops.
- All along the extent of the corridor, in little alcoves, there are stalls of shops, kept principally by women, who, as you approach, are seen through the dusk offering for sale… multifarious trumpery.
Synonyms trinkets, baubles, cheap finery, knick-knacks, ornaments, bibelots, gewgaws, gimcracks - 1.1 Practices or beliefs that are superficially or visually appealing but have little real value or worth.
he exposed their ideals as trumpery as modifier that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves Example sentencesExamples - An assertion of absolute moral superiority in the form of black-shirted nuclear families - spiritual trumpery via breeding.
- In fact, it's even more important to bring a critical eye to bear on issues of such import, if only to avoid the kind of moral trumpery that goes on in these sorts of letters.
- The weight and rhythms of Spanish expression transport me; its physicality, drama, and lack of trumpery I find breathtaking.
- You mean to tell me I gave the book up for nothing but trumpery?
- Long ago ‘elegant’ was turned from a word denoting the essence of refinement and beauty, into gaudy trumpery.
adjective ˈtrʌmp(ə)riˈtrəmp(ə)ri archaic 1Showy but worthless. Example sentencesExamples - A gipsy boy, with whom I was on friendly terms, used to travel about this part of the country selling trumpery brooches and ornaments.
- Descriptions of the artist in his painting room ‘up to his ears in the trumpery he had been collecting for many a year’ include these panels, which he hoped ‘to use… in some way that may add to their value.’
Synonyms showy, gaudy, garish, vulgar, tasteless - 1.1 Delusive or shallow.
that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves Example sentencesExamples - Deploring the damage done by gulfs between creeds and cultures, he opens up a crevasse between the seemingly serious intent of his novel and the trumpery nature of its techniques.
- We need not neglect all our work for a trumpery incident of this nature; though I am quite aware that little things please little minds.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting trickery): from Old French tromperie, from tromper 'deceive'. Definition of trumpery in US English: trumperynounˈtrəmp(ə)riˈtrəmp(ə)rē archaic 1Attractive articles of little value or use. Example sentencesExamples - The 2000 or so mercers included great merchants engaged in international trade and small traders selling trumpery objects from their shops.
- All along the extent of the corridor, in little alcoves, there are stalls of shops, kept principally by women, who, as you approach, are seen through the dusk offering for sale… multifarious trumpery.
Synonyms trinkets, baubles, cheap finery, knick-knacks, ornaments, bibelots, gewgaws, gimcracks - 1.1 Practices or beliefs that are superficially or visually appealing but have little real value or worth.
Example sentencesExamples - An assertion of absolute moral superiority in the form of black-shirted nuclear families - spiritual trumpery via breeding.
- The weight and rhythms of Spanish expression transport me; its physicality, drama, and lack of trumpery I find breathtaking.
- You mean to tell me I gave the book up for nothing but trumpery?
- In fact, it's even more important to bring a critical eye to bear on issues of such import, if only to avoid the kind of moral trumpery that goes on in these sorts of letters.
- Long ago ‘elegant’ was turned from a word denoting the essence of refinement and beauty, into gaudy trumpery.
adjectiveˈtrəmp(ə)riˈtrəmp(ə)rē archaic 1Showy but worthless. Example sentencesExamples - A gipsy boy, with whom I was on friendly terms, used to travel about this part of the country selling trumpery brooches and ornaments.
- Descriptions of the artist in his painting room ‘up to his ears in the trumpery he had been collecting for many a year’ include these panels, which he hoped ‘to use… in some way that may add to their value.’
Synonyms showy, gaudy, garish, vulgar, tasteless - 1.1 Delusive or shallow.
that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves Example sentencesExamples - We need not neglect all our work for a trumpery incident of this nature; though I am quite aware that little things please little minds.
- Deploring the damage done by gulfs between creeds and cultures, he opens up a crevasse between the seemingly serious intent of his novel and the trumpery nature of its techniques.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting trickery): from Old French tromperie, from tromper ‘deceive’. |