How To Use Trumpery In A Sentence
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Ah, poor fellow! nothing can be more melancholy; unless, as young men sometimes do, you had fancied yourself in love with some trumpery specimen of womankind, which is indeed, as Shakspeare truly says, pressing to death, whipping, and hanging all at once.
The Antiquary — Complete
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All along the extent of the corridor, in little alcoves, there are stalls of shops, kept principally by women, who, as you approach, are seen through the dusk offering for sale… multifarious trumpery.
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An assertion of absolute moral superiority in the form of black-shirted nuclear families - spiritual trumpery via breeding.
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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And yet no sooner did I embrace the part, padding about in my jubbah and Ali Baba slippers, sipping mint tea, jingling my jewelry and letting my belly grow, than she accused me of being a crass vulgarian, an Oriental souk Jew with the taste for trumpery of a market trader from Waltham-stow.
Kalooki Nights
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Airbrushing, "interpolations," positing non-existent weather stations, creative "algorithms," frauds and flim flams in general - such is "science" in the age of ideological trumpery and triumphalism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Doubtles the author of this libell was some vagabond huckster or pedler, and had gone particularly into many corners of Island to vtter his trumpery wares, which he also testifieth of himselfe in his worthy rimes, that he had trauailed thorow the greatest part of
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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` ` Ah, poor fellow! nothing can be more melancholy; unless, as young men sometimes do, you had fancied yourself in love with some trumpery specimen of womankind, which is indeed, as Shakspeare truly says, pressing to death, whipping, and hanging all at once. ''
The Antiquary
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Descriptions of the artist in his painting room ‘up to his ears in the trumpery he had been collecting for many a year’ include these panels, which he hoped ‘to use… in some way that may add to their value.’
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“You may give quarters to such cattle if you like it yourself, Harry Wynd; but the same house shall not quarter that trumpery quean and me, and of that you may assure yourself.”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Louis XI, an habitual derider of whatever did not promise real power or substantial advantage, was in especial a professed contemner of heralds and heraldry, “red, blue, and green, with all their trumpery,” to which the pride of his rival Charles, which was of a very different kind, attached no small degree of ceremonious importance.
Quentin Durward
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In fact, it's even more important to bring a critical eye to bear on issues of such import, if only to avoid the kind of moral trumpery that goes on in these sorts of letters.
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Priory, to take care of all the old trumpery, and show the place -- you know it's a _show place_.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09
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A gipsy boy, with whom I was on friendly terms, used to travel about this part of the country selling trumpery brooches and ornaments.
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The weight and rhythms of Spanish expression transport me; its physicality, drama, and lack of trumpery I find breathtaking.
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You mean to tell me I gave the book up for nothing but trumpery?
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We need not neglect all our work for a trumpery incident of this nature; though I am quite aware that little things please little minds.
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Deploring the damage done by gulfs between creeds and cultures, he opens up a crevasse between the seemingly serious intent of his novel and the trumpery nature of its techniques.
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Long ago ‘elegant’ was turned from a word denoting the essence of refinement and beauty, into gaudy trumpery.
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The 2000 or so mercers included great merchants engaged in international trade and small traders selling trumpery objects from their shops.
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Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze.
Turned Adrift
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Thus, under no obligations whatever, they inspired in one another a genial satisfaction in the trumpery.
FAIRYLAND