Sentence examples for trumpery from inspiring English sources

THEY gathered to eat a "collation of oven trumpery" at the invitation of Jacob Tonson, a publisher and bookseller.

You do not necessarily have to dress up placebos in the trumpery of alternative medicine: studies show placebos also work when patients are just given fake pills that they think are proper medicines and even when they know they are placebos.

Wonderfully, Haiti was the world's first black republic; yet a succession of trumpery emperors, kings and presidents-for-life such as François "Papa Doc" Duvalier misruled the island.

As with so many of his apparently off-the-cuff "gaffes", there may be more calculation in such Trumpery than meets the eye.

When, in the eighteen-sixties, the English-appointed governor of Jamaica punished a native uprising with hideous cruelty — the accused were tortured and many hanged, after trumpery trials — Mill led the fight in England against him, chairing a committee to have him tried not for maladministration but for murder.

Two of his rediscovered wartime works, the lurid film noir "Tomorrow We Live" and the goofball comedy "My Son, the Hero" (Alpha), present views of the alienated underside of American life in wartime, where patriotic trumpery concealed gamblers, gangsters, black marketeers, and women who resented and betrayed men who were away at war.

Yet the intellectual ancestry of the leave cause has much more interesting and coherent roots than Farage's pound-shop Anglo-Trumpery.

Mini-Trumpery, you might say.

They must know people who have sat through these trumperies.

The trumperies by Mr. Walter (or whoever did them) were so alluring that Maria Morris Hambourg, photography curator at the Metropolitan Museum, was ready to make them the cornerstone of a Man Ray retrospective until she noticed a suspicious trademark on the photographic paper.

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