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[ UK /klˈæptɹæp/ ]
NOUN
  1. pompous or pretentious talk or writing

How To Use claptrap In A Sentence

  • Of course, since astrology is all complete claptrap, this shouldn't concern me at all, should it?
  • This isn't situational realism, it's misogynist claptrap, the kind of stuff no one needs to see in the movies.
  • Don't believe a word of what he says. It's just a load of claptrap.
  • I wonder who Nicola thinks she's fooling with this pious claptrap.
  • I couldn't believe my own father was uttering such ageist claptrap.
  • It was full of self-satisfied, self-congratulatory claptrap designed to fool the public - I will come back to that in a moment.
  • But what happens when the right-wing minority decides that they've had enough of this liberal claptrap about integration?
  • The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain! Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap.
  • This "line of control" is surly meant to contain a remerging Russia and not as the official Pentagon claptrap expounds to protect Europe from incoming Iranian missiles. Ohmynews International
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