Trumpery
Is there occasionally some form of prescience in archaic words?
trumpery
archaic
noun
trumpery; plural noun: trumperies
attractive articles of little value or use.
practices or beliefs that are superficially or visually appealing but have little real value or worth.
adjective
trumpery
showy but worthless.
Of interest also synonyms for 'trumpery'
Synonyms for trumpery
applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, twaddle
Last edited by Jan Iwaszkiewicz; 06-25-2020 at 07:59 PM.
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