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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
  • When done right, this type of content may be cheaper to produce compared to scripted shows, and bring in new (typically younger) demographics who have currently have more of an affinity to YouTube and other social media channels.
    Kiri Masters, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Several North Florida areas are averaging less than $3 a gallon as the region remains the cheapest to get gas in the state, in some places about 25 cents cents less per gallon than South Florida.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The word had seemed like nonsense only a moment before.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Having a terrible job where empty, pandering nonsense is handed down by corporate headquarters.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Gerulaitis’s gallows humour deflects from the fact that his terrible records against Connors and Borg took a big toll on his confidence.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • While this is terrible for the environment, customer satisfaction, and retailers’ bottom lines, the truth is the industry has created a monster and easy and free returns have become the basic consumer expectation.
    Steve Dennis, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • When a garbage man showed up this week, Ms. deVicariis was overjoyed after days of cleaning up vegetation.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The 55-year-old super’s body was found hidden under Navarro’s bed wrapped in clothing and two garbage bags, one covering his top half, the other covering his lower half.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Understand that poor sleep hygiene can negatively impact the quantity and quality of sleep.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The Texans’ offensive line was mostly poor this season, unable to consistently protect Stroud.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • On the evening of January 14, a woman was arrested after allegedly setting multiple piles of rubbish and trash on fire, Jim McDonnell, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said at a news conference last week.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Combine principles with experience Anyone can send out glib; motivational rubbish based on principles.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, while there may still be a secular public school in this community, if only a small handful of students attend this traditional public school, that school will most likely lack the resources of the Lutheran school, and will offer an inferior education.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The period’s stucco product, the common alternative to wood for exteriors, was inferior to today’s, carrying only a one-hour fire rating.
    Richard Olsen, Forbes, 26 Jan. 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 31 Jan. 2025.

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