How to Use claptrap in a Sentence
claptrap
noun- I'm tired of hearing all that claptrap about how hard her life is.
- His entire speech was nothing but claptrap.
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These are the people, rather than the nation, to whom Truss is appealing with her tax-cutting claptrap.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
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His claim about the female body is complete claptrap, nonsense.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2012
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Some cosmic claptrap is invoked, and the four are allowed back to Earth for one final concert.
—Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
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And both their video ads on social media and the speeches at their convention were devoid of Marxist claptrap.
—The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
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The wild likes to wring out all unnecessary claptrap and excess baggage until you’re left naked and exalted and clinging to the truth.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
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His style is more rooted in George Jones than the bro-country and hick-hop claptrap that until recently dominated the airwaves.
—Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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Given Stephens’ record of dispensing unfounded claptrap, detailed above, to ask the question is to answer it.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
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And jettisoning silly claptrap about good guys and bad guys, right and wrong, and a clear, easily definable line that demarcates it all.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 4 May 2021
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Nor can the novelist answer why liberals have granted this claptrap such power.
—Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
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This defense is the most morally and ethically shallow claptrap offered up to public discourse since Trump took office.
—Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Apr. 2017
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This is not just culture war claptrap about a heretofore obscure academic theory.
—W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 23 June 2021
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The speculations are never heavy-handed or bogged down with obscure philosophic claptrap.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
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This is not some traditional sentimental claptrap about a family saying goodbye to the old homestead.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2022
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Conspiracy claptrap inspired by right-wing radio hosts.
—Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
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Nolan’s main argument—for a streaming company that still commits in some way to the cinema experience—is not some elitist claptrap, but a reasonable plea from an artist who believes that movies are best enjoyed, if possible, in movie theaters.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 July 2017
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All this claptrap offends the romantic ethnicity being peddled, especially the tenor of Irish heritage that Branagh’s remote style misrepresents in nearly every scene.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
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No outside controversial claptrap allowed during Our Time.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2021
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This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
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Something about marginal utility, blah blah, and some Keynesian claptrap about wondrous government spending.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 12 July 2020
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For all the claptrap Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have spouted about the filibuster facilitating bipartisan compromise, their opposition to eliminating it is most intelligible as a matter of material politics.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
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Because for all the claptrap Manchin and Sinema have spouted about the filibuster facilitating bipartisan compromise and building unity, their opposition to eliminating it is most intelligible as a matter of material politics.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
- I'm tired of hearing all that claptrap about how hard her life is.
- His entire speech was nothing but claptrap.
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These are the people, rather than the nation, to whom Truss is appealing with her tax-cutting claptrap.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
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His claim about the female body is complete claptrap, nonsense.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2012
-
Some cosmic claptrap is invoked, and the four are allowed back to Earth for one final concert.
—Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
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And both their video ads on social media and the speeches at their convention were devoid of Marxist claptrap.
—The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
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The wild likes to wring out all unnecessary claptrap and excess baggage until you’re left naked and exalted and clinging to the truth.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
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