Claptrap

//ˈklæpˌtɹæp//

"Claptrap" in a Sentence (5 examples)

That's a load of claptrap.

The mayor and his companion have been uttering a lot of claptrap to the citizens for a long time.

That book is utter claptrap.

Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.

There had been a suggestion that the child should be with her [while she answers the door], but the mother herself had rejected this. "It would be stagey," she had said, "and clap-trap. There is nothing I hate so much as that."

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