Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Claptrap   Listen
noun
Claptrap  n.  
1.
A contrivance for clapping in theaters. (Obs.)
2.
A trick or device to gain applause, especially pretentious but empty rhetoric; humbug.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Claptrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... more of the reason for those cures than you. Nevertheless I know surely enough it's not me that cures them. No. I think it's their own wills. A bit of claptrap fools them into exerting their own minds on their bodies, and by the same token the fear of weakness will make the weakness itself. So the world rolls ...
— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child


Words linked to "Claptrap" :   bombast, grandiloquence, ornateness, blah, rant, grandiosity


Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org