Sentence examples similar to claptrap mentioned from inspiring English sources

Barely mentioned.

Not mentioned.

Never mentioned.

His speech was long on egotistical claptrap, but oddly failed to mention what this extradition case is actually about — the rape of one woman and sexual molestation of another.

But as lawmakers mention them time and again in interviews, the birthday announcements encapsulate Assembly members' competing views of the speaker's transformation: welcome bonhomie from a once-remote leader, faintly embarrassing but harmless gesture, or cosmetic claptrap to mask underlying ills.

Huntford thought this claptrap.

What sanctimonious claptrap.

That is claptrap.

It is also sentimental claptrap.

That's claptrap," he says.

A verb intransitive is a claptrap thing.