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Meanings of claptrap in English

Spanish
altisonancia

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.

altisonancia
Synonyms
Examples for "rant"
Examples for "rant"
1
Let me repeat an admonition from my own rant in today's paper.
The Irish Times
2
If things break, there will be a rant immediately following these words.
Wired
3
Eszterhas senior said he and his family were terrified during the rant.
The Guardian
4
The first two times a halting apology gave way to a rant.
The arms maker of berlin
5
Manchester Utd v S Prague: The annual Roy Keane rant arrived yesterday.
The Irish Times
1
Typical far-right religious stuff -the decay of society, blah blah blah.
Reuters
2
They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah-blah and the objective correlative of the doodad.
Lit: a memoir
3
I keep going, blah blah blahing, clenching the phone in my hand.
Something wicked
4
Love,' blah, blah, blah, she put everybody's names here, even Headmaster Merlin.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
5
Eighty percent will soon be able to drink the water, blah blah blah.
The Irish Times
1
The bombast and ignorance shown in some of these is very amusing.
Diary in America, Series Two
2
More likely the remark was just a common piece of evangelical bombast.
Anthill: a novel
3
My impressions, though produced by a conversation thoroughly free from bombast, deepened.
The Preacher and His Models / The Yale Lectures on Preaching 189...
4
Pitt made a short speech, excellently argumentative, and not bombast, nor tedious.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
5
Nonsense gives place to sense, bombast to a hard-boiled and cynical lucidity.
Brave new world revisited
1
I brought with me some sweets, and wore a threadbare fustian suit.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
2
The regal ermine and the murderer's fustian alike obtain their enviable niche.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841
3
It is true, my coat is fustian, and my whole accoutrement plebeian.
Four Early Pamphlets
4
They deal with the spurious and fustian from cradle to grave.
White Ashes
5
You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
Usage of claptrap in English
1
No, Sir, we deny that this theory is merely unfounded feminist claptrap.
The penelopiad
2
He thought it was claptrap and could not think of such a thing.
The Door Into Summer
3
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 ...
6
The retort is on a par with the proposition, and both are claptrap.
If Not Silver, What?
7
This is a claptrap, and I have no doubt will sell the book.
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
8
That's the facts, not subjective claptrap or putting on the rose coloured glasses.
News.com.au
9
Bishop --followed him with a mere piece of missionary claptrap.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2
10
It's testimony to Jones's professionalism how convincing he makes such claptrap.
The Guardian
11
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
14
She didn't believe in nannies or any of that claptrap.
Hostile intent
15
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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