| 单词 | trumpery |
| 释义 | trum·pery I. 1. obsolete < left none of his trumperies and double-dealings unrevealed — Robert Dallington > 2. a. < a wagon loaded with household trumpery — Washington Irving > < farm families loaded down with balloons, dolls, and other trumpery of the pitchman — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > b. < a piece of propaganda trumpery — Time > < the trumperies of a forced symbolism — Robert Pick > c. archaic < the trumpery in my house — Shakespeare > d. dialect Britain II. 1. < charm primitive peoples with mirrors, glass beads, and other trumpery baubles > < the demands mankind makes of fiction may be slight, trumpery, ridiculous, or meretricious — Bernard De Voto > 2. a. < the trumpery pathos of a tenth-rate novel — Hugh Walpole > < encourages the bringing of trumpery actions … even though no damage has been suffered — Manchester Guardian Weekly > b. < seemed in her own eyes both deluded and … trumpery — Elizabeth Taylor > < encouraged two or three trumpery fellows … to cut scurvy jokes at my expense — George Borrow > |
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