trumpery

• He found everything "clean, whole and in its place" with no "trumpery ornaments" as he had spotted with disdain in the homes of families in coal-mining areas. —  HX News and Sport
• A quantity of glass and crystal trumpery, the remains of the splendid apparatus, was sold on the South Bridge for next to nothing. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• He had the conscience to demand thirty of my nicely-made rings for one of his trumpery, ill-made silver ones--silver with a very bad alloy. —  Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
• Down with your trumpery, Simon! —  Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
• Thither night be brought specimens of the ingenious handicraft of men in the manufacture of deities; we might have the whole process, in all its varieties, complete; the raw material of a God in a block of stone or wood, and the most finished specimen in the shape of a Phidian Jupiter; the countless bits of trumpery which Fetichism has ever consecrated; the divine monsters of ancient Egypt, and the equally divine monsters of modern India; the infinite array of grim deformities hallowed by American, Asiatic, and African superstition. —  The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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