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Significats de claptrap en anglès

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Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.

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Ús de claptrap en anglès
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No, Sir, we deny that this theory is merely unfounded feminist claptrap.
The penelopiad
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He thought it was claptrap and could not think of such a thing.
The Door Into Summer
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But I didn't believe that claptrap any more than they did.
Brains: a zombie memoir
4
Some of your readers, judging from their letters, regard this as creationist claptrap.
The Irish Times
5
Some of the Tory orators had employed what was then a favourite claptrap.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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The retort is on a par with the proposition, and both are claptrap.
If Not Silver, What?
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This is a claptrap, and I have no doubt will sell the book.
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
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That's the facts, not subjective claptrap or putting on the rose coloured glasses.
News.com.au
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Bishop --followed him with a mere piece of missionary claptrap.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2
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It's testimony to Jones's professionalism how convincing he makes such claptrap.
The Guardian
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But a school, with all its disciplinary claptrap reduced to a junk heap!
Pee-wee Harris on the Trail
12
He makes this sound something less than the ridiculous claptrap that it is.
The Guardian
13
It had to be nothing more than silly, sentimental claptrap over childhood memories.
The devil she knows
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She didn't believe in nannies or any of that claptrap.
Hostile intent
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It is claptrap and temporary deception of the "Patriotism before Politics" order.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
16
A few kisses, a lot of sentimental claptrap, undying love.
All together dead
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Claptrap a través del temps
Claptrap per variant geogràfica
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