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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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
Is it in the whitewashing of the battlements, the mending of the roads, the fountains, and all such trumperies?
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
Formerly there were the village constable, the district clerk, trumperies, requisitions, and taxations; for then it was the gentry who were the guardians.
From Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak
I was compelled therefore to lay hands on these trumperies.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
