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trumpery a. 不足道的;可卑的;浅薄的 不足道的;可卑的;浅薄的 trumpery n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [ synonym: { folderol}, { rubbish}, { tripe}, { trumpery}, { trash}, { wish- wash}, { applesauce}, { codswallop}] 2: ornamental objects of no great value [ synonym: { folderal}, { falderol}, { frill}, { gimcrackery}, { gimcrack}, { nonsense}, { trumpery}] Trumpery \ Trump" er* y\, a. Worthless or deceptive in character. " A trumpery little ring." -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster]
Trumpery \ Trump" er* y\, n. [ F. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to deceive. See { Trump} to trick.] 1. Deceit; fraud. [ Obs.] -- Grenewey. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. [ 1913 Webster] The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 105 Moby Thesaurus words for " trumpery": absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, base, bibble- babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bravery, bric- a- brac, bunkum, bushwa, chaff, cheesy, chicken feed, chickenshit, chiffon, claptrap, clinquant, common, details, double- talk, drivel, drool, festoons, fiddle- faddle, fiddledeedee, finery, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froth, froufrou, fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, gaiety, galimatias, gammon, gaudery, gibber, gibberish, gibble- gabble, gilding, gilt, gimcrackery, gingerbread, gobbledygook, hocus- pocus, hokum, humbug, jabber, jargon, knickknackery, malarkey, mean, minutiae, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, paltry, paste, peanuts, pinchbeck, poor, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, rubbishy, shoddy, skimble- skamble, small beer, small change, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, superfluity, tinsel, trappings, trash, trashy, trickery, trifles, trivia, twaddle, twattle, twiddle- twaddle, vaporing, waffling
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