Word Meanings - TRUMPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Deceit; fraud. Grenewey. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to

Additional info about word: TRUMPERY

1. Deceit; fraud. Grenewey. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves. Shak. Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRUMPERY)

• Frippery
• Trumpery
• finery
• tawdriness
• Gaud
• Trinket
• trumpery
• gewgaw
• bauble
• kickshaw
• gimcrack
• whim

Related words: (words related to TRUMPERY)

• TRINKETER
  One who trinkets.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• TRINKETRY
  Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.
• FINERY
  A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration;
• BAUBLE
  It. babbola, LL. baubellum gem, jewel, L. babulus,a baburrus, 1. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan. 2. The fool's
• TAWDRINESS
  Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.
• KICKSHAW
  See SINGULAR
• KICKSHAWS
  something, fr. L. gualis of what kind + suffix - 1. Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy. Art thou good at these kickshawses! Shak. 2. A fancy dish; a titbit; a delicacy. Some pigeons, . . . a joint of mutton, and any pretty
• FRIPPERY
  1. Coast-off clothes. B. Jonson. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott. 3. A place where old clothes
• TRUMPERY
  1. Deceit; fraud. Grenewey. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to
• TRINKET
  A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt.
• GIMCRACK
  A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing. Arbuthnot.
• REFINERY
  1. The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar. 2. A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.