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noun

Trumpery n.

Deceit; fraud. (Obs.)

Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. "The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves." "Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world."

adjective

Trumpery adj. Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little ring."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trumpery" Quotes from Famous Books

... Peggy!" on meeting; to discuss the doings of the neighbourhood in an easy-going fashion, as if no cloud hovered between them, and then to march past the very gates without coming in, refuse invitations on trumpery excuses, and attend a church at the opposite end of the parish—such behaviour as this was worse than inconsistent in Peggy's eyes, it ...

— More About Peggy • Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey

... to enter into all the metaphysical trumpery of his Schools, nor wholly to confine my self to the language of the Pulpit; where we are told, that to think of GOD and of the Devil, we must endeavour first to form Ideas of those things which illustrate the description of rewards and punishments; ...

— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe

... he; "Borka and his trumpery wife send me word that they will be here to-morrow. See to it that every man, woman, and child, for ten versts out on the Moskovskoi road, knows of their coming. Let it be known that whoever uncovers his head before ...

— Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home • Bayard Taylor

... It hath been a wearyful journey and a long, yet should have been a pleasant one, but for the lack of victual. The strangest land ever I did see, or think to see, is this. The poor men hereaway dwell in good houses, and lack meat: the rich dwell in yet fairer, and eat very trumpery. I saw not in all my life in England so much olive oil as in one week sithence I came into Spain. What I am for to live upon here I do marvel. Cheese they have, and onions by the cartload; but they eat not but little meat, and that all strings (a tender piece thereof have I not yet ...

— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt

... quite enough weapons and instruments of carnage. I want a small figure,—something which will suit me as a paper-weight, for I cannot endure those trumpery bronzes which the stationers sell, and which may be found ...

— The Mummy's Foot • Theophile Gautier

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