trumpery
noun
something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
trumperies
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pluralof trumpery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Now as we have told the success of the trumperies and cruelties of our own kings, and other great personages: so we find, that God is everywhere the same God.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
These mountebanks at one end of their stage place their trunk, which is replenished with a world of new-fangled trumperies.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
I will repay you, upon honor, when we young fellows return from France, all laden with rings and brooches and such trumperies like your Norfolkshire pedlars at Christmas-tide.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell
Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene—in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
"And yet," said he, "it is for such trumperies men sacrifice their lives, sometimes their characters."
From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various
