| 单词 | trumpery |
| 释义 | trumpery (once / 6581 pages) n Pretty or fancy objects that are completely useless can be called trumpery. Your huge collection of animal salt and pepper shakers is nothing but trumpery. Trumpery is typically fun to look at, but not very practical or worth very much. Many collectible objects are trumpery, like the dolls your grandma buys to display throughout her house or the cheap plastic jewelry your sister always spends her allowance on. Another kind of trumpery is equally useless or worthless speech, whether it's written or spoken. Trumpery comes from the Old French tromperie, with its root of tromper, "to deceive." WORD FAMILYtrumpery: trumperies+/overtrump: overtrumps/trump: overtrump, trumped, trumpery, trumping, trumps/trumping: trumpings USAGE EXAMPLESThe classic defense of Trumpery, now as then. The New Yorker(Nov 10, 2016) “My play would have drawn twice as much without all the meretricious trumpery they’ve bedizened it with!” New York Times(Sep 27, 2016) Anyone get a good whiff of Mr. Trumpery lately? Salon(Apr 03, 2016) 1n ornamental objects of no great value Syn|Hyper falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense decoration, ornament, ornamentation something used to beautify 2n nonsensical talk or writing Syn|Hyper applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash drivel, garbage a worthless message |
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