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Meanings of trumpery in English
Usage of trumpery in English
1
Some cases of trumpery rosaries were found and dispatched the same way.
2
This trumpery business with the cigarette revolutionised my whole feelings towards Boyce.
3
Poor boy, his wife has quite forgotten him and his trumpery love.
4
Well, there's been a lot of trouble over a trumpery wooden idol.
5
What does he do with all his rhetorical trumpery at such times?
6
What had I, Pratolungo's widow, to do with this trumpery family entanglement?
7
Almost at the same instant the woman in her trumpery saw him too.
8
The civic and legal trumpery was of course made to kick the beam.
9
For I heartily despised all that fustian trumpery of the age.
10
Once, twice; will you take this check in exchange for your trumpery snuff-box?
11
It is painted on a little trumpery fan- ameresquare foot of silk.
12
We bought some of their wooden trumpery, and likewise a watch for U--.
13
He is too high-minded for so trumpery a matter to weigh with him.
14
These consisted of several round-looking stones, two deer's heads, and other inferior trumpery.
15
A truth which only glideth into fine ears, he calleth falsehood and trumpery.
16
There was a trumpery idle fellow always loitering at Littleworthy, and playing croquet.
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United Kingdom
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