trumpery
noun
1 trumpery
Nonsensical talk or writing.
synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash.
Roget 643:
unimportance,
insignificance,
nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality,
levity,
frivolity;
paltriness
etc.
adj.;
poverty;
smallness
etc.
32;
vanity
etc.
(uselessness)
645;
matter of indifference
etc.
866;
no object.
nothing,
nothing to signify,
nothing worth speaking of,
nothing particular,
nothing to boast of,
nothing to speak of;
small matter,
no great matter,
trifling matter
etc.
adj.;
mere joke,
mere nothing;
hardly anything;
scarcely anything;
nonentity,
small beer,
cipher;
no great shakes,
peu de chose [Fr.];
child's play,
kinderspiel.
toy,
plaything,
popgun,
paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle,
Rickshaw,
knickknack,
whim-wham,
trifle,
trifles light as air;"
yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish,
stuff,
fatras†,
frippery;
leather or prunello;"
chaff,
drug,
froth bubble smoke,
cobweb;
weed;
refuse
etc.
(inutility)
645;
scum
etc.
(dirt)
653.
joke,
jest,
snap of the fingers;
fudge
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end†;
pack of nonsense,
mere farce.
straw,
pin,
fig,
button,
rush;
bulrush,
feather,
halfpenny,
farthing,
brass farthing,
doit†,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap,
pinch of snuff,
old son;
cent,
mill,
picayune,
pistareen†,
red cent [U.S.].
minutiae,
details,
minor details,
small fry;
dust in the balance,
feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill.
nine days' wonder,
ridiculus mus [Lat.];
flash in the pan
etc.
(impotence)
158;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482.
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Dutch: pens
2 trumpery
Ornamental objects of no great value.
synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense.
Dutch: barrel, franje, lor, prul, prulding, prullaria, prulletje, pruts, tierelantijntjes, tierlantijntjes, vod ... show more
adjective
Roget 517:
unmeaning;
meaningless,
senseless;
nonsensical;
void of sense
etc.
516.
inexpressive,
unexpressive;
vacant;
not significant
etc.
516;
insignificant.
trashy,
washy,
trumpery,
trivial,
fiddle-faddle,
twaddling,
quibbling.
unmeant,
not expressed;
tacit
etc.
(latent)
526.
inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable.
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Roget 643:
unimportant;
of little account,
of small account,
of no account,
of little importance,
of no importance
etc.
642;
immaterial;
unessential,
nonessential;
indifferent.
subordinate
etc.
(inferior)
34;
mediocre
etc.
(average)
29;
passable,
fair,
respectable,
tolerable,
commonplace;
uneventful,
mere,
common;
ordinary
etc.
(habitual)
613;
inconsiderable,
so-so,
insignificant,
inappreciable.
trifling,
trivial;
slight,
slender,
light,
flimsy,
frothy,
idle;
puerile
etc.
(foolish)
499;
airy,
shallow;
weak
etc.
160;
powerless
etc.
158;
frivolous,
petty,
niggling;
piddling,
peddling;
fribble†,
inane,
ridiculous,
farcical;
finical,
finikin†;
fiddle-faddle,
fingle-fangle†,
namby-pamby,
wishy-washy,
milk and water.
poor,
paltry,
pitiful;
contemptible
etc.
(contempt)
930;
sorry,
mean,
meager,
shabby,
miserable,
wretched,
vile,
scrubby,
scrannel†,
weedy,
niggardly,
scurvy,
putid†,
beggarly,
worthless,
twopennyhalfpenny,
cheap,
trashy,
catchpenny,
gimcrack,
trumpery;
one-horse [U.S.].
not worth the pains,
not worth while,
not worth mentioning,
not worth speaking of,
not worth a thought,
not worth a curse,
not worth a straw
etc.
n.;
beneath notice,
unworthy of notice,
beneath regard,
unworthy of regard,
beneath consideration,
unworthy of consideration;
de lana caprina [It];
vain
etc.
(useless)
645.
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Moby thesaurus: absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, base, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bravery, bric-a-brac, bunkum, bushwa, chaff, cheesy, chicken feed, chickenshit, chiffon, claptrap, clinquant, common, details, double-talk, drivel, drool, festoons, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, finery, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froth, froufrou, fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, gaiety, galimatias, gammon, gaudery, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gilding, gilt, gimcrackery, gingerbread, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hokum, humbug, jabber, jargon, knickknackery, malarkey, mean, minutiae, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, paltry, paste, peanuts, pinchbeck, poor, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, rubbishy, shoddy, skimble-skamble, small beer, small change, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, superfluity, tinsel, trappings, trash, trashy, trickery, trifles, trivia, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling ... show more.
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