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   trumpery

   /ˈtrʌmp(ə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. attractive articles of little value or use: "None of your woollen drapery, nor linen drapery, nor any of your frippery or trumpery. I hate ostentation"
   • ▪ practices or beliefs that are superficially or visually appealing but have little real value or worth: "he exposed their ideals as trumpery"

   adjective

   • 1. showy but worthless: "trumpery jewellery"
   • ▪ delusive or shallow: "that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves"

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting trickery): from Old French tromperie, from tromper ‘deceive’.

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