trumpery

How To Use trumpery In A Sentence

• Priory, to take care of all the old trumpery, and show the place -- you know it's a _show place_. Tales and Novels — Volume 09
• Thus, under no obligations whatever, they inspired in one another a genial satisfaction in the trumpery. FAIRYLAND
• But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze. Turned Adrift
• Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.” Saint Ronan's Well
• The 2000 or so mercers included great merchants engaged in international trade and small traders selling trumpery objects from their shops.
• Long ago ‘elegant’ was turned from a word denoting the essence of refinement and beauty, into gaudy trumpery.
• Deploring the damage done by gulfs between creeds and cultures, he opens up a crevasse between the seemingly serious intent of his novel and the trumpery nature of its techniques.
• We need not neglect all our work for a trumpery incident of this nature; though I am quite aware that little things please little minds.
• You mean to tell me I gave the book up for nothing but trumpery?
• The weight and rhythms of Spanish expression transport me; its physicality, drama, and lack of trumpery I find breathtaking.