TRUMPERY meaning: Deceptive, showy, and worthless material

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word trumpery:

General (20 matching dictionaries)

trumpery: Merriam-Webster
trumpery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
trumpery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
trumpery: Collins English Dictionary
trumpery: Vocabulary.com
trumpery: Wordnik
trumpery: Wiktionary
trumpery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
trumpery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
trumpery: Infoplease Dictionary
trumpery: Dictionary.com
trumpery: Online Etymology Dictionary
Trumpery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
trumpery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
trumpery: Rhymezone
Trumpery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
trumpery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
trumpery: FreeDictionary.org
trumpery: Mnemonic Dictionary
trumpery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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trumpery: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

trumpery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
trumpery: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Trumpery)

▸ noun:  Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.
▸ noun:  Nonsense.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Deceit; fraud.
▸ adjective:  Gaudy but worthless.
▸ noun:  (usually derogatory) The beliefs and practices of former US president Donald Trump.

Opposite:

valuable, genuine, authentic, quality

Adjectives:

such, other, old, useless, mere, much, popish, fashioned, idle, multifarious, rebellious

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