Trumpery

//ˈtɹʌmpəɹi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Gaudy but worthless. not-comparable

    "He earnestly exhorted them all to be earnest in their studies, and to think nothing beneath them. Let them not pass over any cases as unimportant; for they must remember that some of the greatest principles of the law had been enunciated out of the most apparently trumpery cases that had come before the judges."

Noun
  1. 1
    Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.

    "I have ſold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glaſſe, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring, to keepe my Pack from faſting: […]"

  2. 2
    The beliefs and practices of US president Donald Trump. derogatory, uncountable, usually

    ""Trump: The Art of the Deal" (fresh drumroll, please) is more forthcoming about the first wing of the Trump attack than it is about the second. The reason goes to the dark heart of Trumpery: the book is itself a craftily designed piece of public relations. That a businessman should thus use himself as a sales gimmick is hardly a crime against literature. But "The Art of the Deal" does deserve at least a warning label."

  3. 3
    ornamental objects of no great value wordnet
  4. 4
    Nonsense.

    "Now upon the coming of Chriſt, very much, tho' not all, of this idolatrous Trumpery and Superſtition was driven out of the World: […]"

  5. 5
    nonsensical talk or writing wordnet
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  1. 6
    Deceit; fraud. obsolete

    "1640, Richard Greenwey, The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie, publ. by Richard Whitaker, 182. Agrippina after this, more mad and wilfull then ever, gave out threatning and thundring ſpeeches: yet not forbearing the Princes eares, but crying, that Britannicus was now growen to mans eſtate : a true and worthy plant to receive his fathers Empire, which a grafted ſon by adoption now poſſeſſed by the injury and trumpery of his mother."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).

Etymology 3

From Trump + -ery, especially as a pun on trumpery.

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