Trumpery

/ˈtɹʌmpəɹi/

Synonyms for "trumpery" (158 found)

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aesthetic qualityappearance qualitydecorationdrivelempty talkgarbagenonsenseobjectornamentornamentation

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baubleclaptrapgaudy decorationpiffletawdry ornamenttrinket

Collocations

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cheap trumperygaudy trumperytrumpery decorationtrumpery displaytrumpery finerytrumpery goodstrumpery ornamenttrumpery rhetoric

Inflections

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more trumperymost trumperytrumperies

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Sample sentences

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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: […]

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PROSPERO.^([To Ariel]) / This was well done, my bird. / Thy shape invisible retain thou still: / The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither / For stale to catch these thieves.

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

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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.

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