Synonyms of trumpery

trumpery 1 of 2

adjective

as in cheap

of low quality

trumpery knickknacks from some souvenir shop

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheap
• terrible
• poor
• inferior
• rotten
• coarse
• bad
• common
• worthless
• useless
• rubbishy
• wretched
• execrable
• shoddy
• low-grade
• gimcrack
• counterfeit
• miserable
• trashy
• bum
• junky
• second-rate
• low-rent
• mediocre
• cheapjack
• cheesy
• schlocky
• fake
• sleazy
• schlock
• crappy
• lousy
• shlocky
• shlock
• valueless
• cut-rate
• meretricious
• tawdry
• bargain-basement
• gaudy
• showy
• indifferent
• ostentatious
• kitsch
• kitschy
• garish
• shabby
• second-class
• el cheapo
• lackluster
• glitzy
• tacky
• flashy
• swanky
• sham
• phoney
• swank
• phony
• seedy
• splashy
• brummagem
• ultracheap
• supercheap

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fine
• good
• excellent
• superior
• first-class
• high-grade
• elegant
• handsome
• first-rate
• tasteful
• top-notch
• polished
• refined
• handcrafted

trumpery

2 of 2

noun

ˈtrəm-p(ə-)rē 

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

a lot of the news pertaining to the war effort was loaded with so much trumpery that no one knew how it was really proceeding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• garbage
• rubbish
• nuts
• silliness
• blah
• stupidity
• drool
• falderal
• bunk
• twaddle
• piffle
• muck
• trash
• foolishness
• humbuggery
• claptrap
• buncombe
• balderdash
• jazz
• bunkum
• hokum
• boloney
• poppycock
• baloney
• folderol
• blah-blah
• flapdoodle
• beans
• tosh
• craziness
• hogwash
• blither
• tommyrot
• guff
• bosh
• hooey
• tarradiddle
• blatherskite
• malarky
• insanity
• bilge
• fiddlesticks
• madness
• punk
• crock
• rot
• fiddle
• folly
• absurdity
• malarkey
• bull
• fiddle-faddle
• codswallop
• humbug
• fudge
• blather
• blarney
• drivel
• taradiddle
• crapola
• horsefeathers
• applesauce
• hoodoo
• senselessness
• absurdness
• hokeypokey
• flannel
• moonshine
• foolery
• nerts
• idiocy
• imbecility
• slush
• asininity
• inanity
• fatuity
• tomfoolery
• witlessness
• kookiness
• gas
• lunacy
• rigmarole
• greek
• rigamarole
• inaneness
• hocus-pocus
• hot air
• hoity-toity
• monkey business
• double-talk
• shenanigan(s)
• monkeyshine(s)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonableness
• rationality
• sense
• common sense
• sensibleness
• reasonability
• horse sense
• judgment
• wisdom
• discernment
• judgement
• levelheadedness

Examples of trumpery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

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