How To Use Claptrap In A Sentence
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To call them anything else is sentimental claptrap.
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His new movie is a piece of falsely modest claptrap.
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His streamlined, Shaolin-infused raps prioritized what he termed guillotine swordsmanship and the God theory of Five Percent, the Nation of Islam offshoot-not commercial claptrap.
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This book was unabashed nihilist claptrap.
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Look, really, if I want environmentalist doomwatch claptrap I'll go join one of the Big Three parties.
What to do in a failing civilization
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I am betraying little if I say that the piece concludes with two happy couples and much sentimental claptrap.
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The closure is accompanied by the usual claptrap about improving customer service.
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The reason I did not publish such stuff is that it was inconsequential claptrap.
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What a load of claptrap!
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Others think we were set here on Earth to deliver them from eco-claptrappery.
Reader Rants and Raves
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He has the freedom now to speak his mind on issues that affect us all, and he presents a solid case damning them, without a lot of romantic claptrap.
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Thankfully there is little chance clever agencies will start falling for this PC claptrap.
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As you can see, all this advice being offered by these so-called ‘online experts’ is nothing but hogwash and claptrap.
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I cringe whenever I see his face or hear his self - righteous claptrap.
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The problem is not that he speaks his mind but that, when he's not talking about the on-field action, the content of his mind largely consists of sanctimonious claptrap.
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The global citizen is assaulted with a cacophony of claptrap, and mumbo-jumbo has gained the upper hand.
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The closure is accompanied by the usual claptrap about improving customer service.
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I just read this claptrap from someone who is selling a ‘new’ idea for moving a vehicle.
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The arrival of "Good People," which opened Thursday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is a particularly reassuring event as the spring theater season in New York begins to blossom - a season whose public-relations mojo has been shanghaied by some ridiculously expensive claptrap about a webby superhero on wires.
In New York, 'Good People' a sign of hope for this theater season
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If I understand Dispensational theology (and that may not even be possible, given the inherent contradictions and outright nonsense with which such premillennial claptrap is imbued), the coming of the "anti-Christ" should be a good thing, since it presages The Rapture, wherein the Righteous are bodily ascended into heaven, leaving the rest of us heathens and unbelievers to live in peace, once and for all.
Discourse.net: New Low For McCain Campaign: Obama == The Anti-Christ
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But how do we know that this tells us any more than that a large pile of illogical claptrap is related to a small pile of neurons?
Carry-Over Thread
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For those who believe this claptrap from the likes of Al Gore and his climate change scientific wizards, than go right now and junk your vehicles and walk, move out of your carbon polluting homes and live in a tent or find a cave.
Obama aide: Copenhagen accord 'a great step forward'
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And he knows how to sum up his point in a few words with no gobbledygook or claptrap!
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It probably won't convince the die-hards, but for many it might crystalise their thoughts and allow more people to openly challenge the status quo and call religion what it is - superstitious claptrap that has got the world into a whole heap of trouble - and continues so to do.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This claptrap is ideological, rigid and disconnected from reality:
Jonathan Lewis: Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix
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You may wonder that I got in such a taking over one pompous windbag spouting claptrap; usually I just sit and sneer when the know-alls start prating on behalf of the poor oppressed heathen, sticking a barb in 'em as opportunity serves-why, I've absolutely heard 'em lauding the sepoy mutineers as honest patriots, and I haven't even bothered to break wind by way of dissent.
Isabelle
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But what happens when the right-wing minority decides that they've had enough of this liberal claptrap about integration?
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This claptrap is ideological, rigid and disconnected from reality.
Jonathan Lewis: Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix
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This isn't situational realism, it's misogynist claptrap, the kind of stuff no one needs to see in the movies.
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Don't believe a word of what he says. It's just a load of claptrap.
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I wonder who Nicola thinks she's fooling with this pious claptrap.
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I couldn't believe my own father was uttering such ageist claptrap.
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It was full of self-satisfied, self-congratulatory claptrap designed to fool the public - I will come back to that in a moment.
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But what happens when the right-wing minority decides that they've had enough of this liberal claptrap about integration?
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The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain!
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap.
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This "line of control" is surly meant to contain a remerging Russia and not as the official Pentagon claptrap expounds to protect Europe from incoming Iranian missiles.
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Trying to shame me with religious claptrap is less useful than tits on a boar.
Think Progress » Democratic Offices Vandalized In Days Surrounding Health Care Vote
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Another piece of arty-farty claptrap explained that this was ‘to prompt ideas about the relationship between displacement and governance‘.
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(This is the meaning of the word "claptrap" BTW; claptrap is a planted line you are forced to applaud for.)
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Of course, since astrology is all complete claptrap, this shouldn't concern me at all, should it?
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He said: ‘If they are going to support this sort of claptrap, the outlook for local communities is very bad indeed.’
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Another piece of arty-farty claptrap explained that this was ‘to prompt ideas about the relationship between displacement and governance‘.
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But what happens when the right-wing minority decides that they've had enough of this liberal claptrap about integration?
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The plot is a baffling array of gangster parody nonsense, sexist claptrap and kidnap chaos.
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Also, this is highly unscientific claptrap, but interesting nonetheless.
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I might not have a lot of letters after my name but I can tell you that this is claptrap.
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Why the need for this emotive claptrap, which is mostly not actually relevant to the comments here?
Buzz Aldrin Says We Can Get to Mars by 2019 | Universe Today
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The whole plan is utter claptrap and wastes time.
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Whoever writes this claptrap is truly stupid – and you are doubly stupid for reporting it.
Think Progress » Two Percent
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How is science served by such lamentable claptrap?
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Cilea's alternately swooning, scintillating and thundering score does much to ennoble the overwrought claptrap of the opera's libretto.
Review: Washington Concert Opera's 'Adriana Lecouvreur' at Lisner Auditorium
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Still less does one want to hear Marxist claptrap about colonialism.