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Recent Examples of trumpery
Noun
What was the strategic benefit to the US of all this geopolitical trumpery? Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 May 2022 So will the border continue to vanish in the face of nativist backlash and a trumpery, gimcrack wall? Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 25 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trumpery
Adjective
  • Being cheap is completely foolish and a lot of people make that mistake.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Replacement filters are cheap and the reservoir holds 2.4 liters.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But the Dutton nephew is not hearing any of that nonsense.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The 38-piece capsule captures the show’s sense of kooky nautical nonsense, the lovable yellow sponge’s face crocheted into a pipsqueak-sized tote bag, printed onto swim trunks, and plastered on slingback espadrilles.
    Violet Goldstone, WWD, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The boys now harbor a terrible secret of their own.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But the point is, every team has a few terrible losses in the course of a season.
    Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.
    Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This can manifest in poor financial behaviors like excessive credit card debt, minimal savings, or impulsive investment decisions.
    Shane Enete, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • From the moment the details of the agreement became known, analysts gave the deal a poor prognosis.
    TIME, TIME, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The site was first excavated beginning in 1995, and in 2018, scientists began collecting, analyzing and radiocarbon dating fossils unearthed from El Gigante rubbish piles.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In court, Musk and the Trump administration did not claim that Musk was an inferior officer exempt from confirmation.
    Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Similar views applied to immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, whom many Americans regarded as poor, uneducated, and inferior.
    Made by History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.
    Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Jan. 2025

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“Trumpery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trumpery. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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