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trumpery
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synonyms: frippery, gewgaw, kickshaw, bauble, brimborion, fallal, gimcrack, bibelot ???
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Definition:1. {n} Something attractive but with little value or use.2. {adj} Trifling, showy but worthless.
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“I’d like to have Missis say which is worth the most,—a couple such as you, or one like me. Get out wid ye, ye trumpery,—I won’t have ye round!”
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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When you reach my age you will see that society is a very trumpery thing, and you will be sorry you attached so much importance to these trifles.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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All day you may ride and never once will your eye rest upon a picture that is commonplace or trumpery.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Roughing it De Luxe
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Throw into the fire all these mischievous books, which are every day corrupting the minds of so many young people; instead of such trumpery, read, as you ought to do, the Quatrains of Pibrac and the learned memorandum-books of Councillor Matthieu,
Molière. Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
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Our captain said that if the material of the bag had been the trumpery varnished “silk” of five hundred or a thousand years ago, we should inevitably have been damaged.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Mellonta Tauta (1849)
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This was well done, my bird.
Thy shape invisible retain thou still.
The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
For scale to catch these thieves.
William Shakespeare. The Tempest
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“There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter,” said Mr Kernan sententiously. “The old system was the best: plain honest education. None of your modern trumpery....”
James Joyce. Dubliners
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