Synonyms of the word trumpery


TRUMPERYAPPLESAUCE - CODSWALLOP - DECORATION - DRIVEL - FALDEROL - FOLDERAL - FOLDEROL - FRILL - GARBAGE - GIMCRACK - GIMCRACKERY - NONSENSE - ORNAMENT - ORNAMENTATION - RUBBISH - TRASH - TRIPE - WISH-WASH

trumpery

  • n. Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.
  • n. Nonsense.
  • n. (obsolete) Deceit; fraud.
  • adj. Gaudy but of no value.

applesauce

  • n. (US) Apple sauce.
  • n. (slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.
  • interj. (slang, US, dated) nonsense!

codswallop

  • n. (Britain, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Used to express disbelief: nonsense!; rubbish!

decoration

  • n. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
  • n. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
  • n. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of…
  • n. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host.

drivel

  • n. senseless talk; nonsense.
  • n. saliva, drool.
  • n. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
  • n. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
  • v. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
  • v. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.
  • v. To be weak or foolish; to dote.

falderol

  • n. Alternative form of folderol.

folderal

  • n. Alternative spelling of folderol.

folderol

  • n. (uncountable) Nonsense or foolishness.
  • n. (countable) A decorative object of little value; a trifle or gewgaw.

frill

  • n. A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
  • n. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
  • n. A luxury.
  • n. Something extraneous added for effect.
  • v. (transitive) To make into a frill.
  • v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
  • v. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold.

garbage

  • n. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • n. Food waste material of any kind.
  • n. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  • n. A place or receptacle for waste material.
  • n. Nonsense; gibberish.
  • n. (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To eviscerate.

gimcrack

  • adj. Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
  • n. Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.

gimcrackery

  • n. tastelessness.

nonsense

  • n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
  • n. An untrue statement.
  • n. Something foolish.
  • n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
  • n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
  • v. To make nonsense of.
  • v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  • v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
  • adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
  • adj. nonsensical.

ornament

  • n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
  • n. A Christmas tree decoration.
  • n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
  • v. To decorate.
  • v. To add to.

ornamentation

  • n. Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
  • n. The act or process of decorating etc.

rubbish

  • adj. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
  • interj. (colloquial) Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
  • interj. Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
  • n. Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
  • n. Nonsense.
  • n. (archaic) ruins or debris of buildings.
  • v. To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

trash

  • n. (chiefly US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
  • n. A container into which things are discarded.
  • n. Something worthless or of poor quality.
  • n. (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash…
  • n. (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
  • n. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered…
  • n. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
  • v. (US) To discard.
  • v. (US) To make into a mess.
  • v. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
  • v. (US) To disrespect someone or something.
  • v. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
  • v. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
  • v. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain;…

tripe

  • n. The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
  • n. The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
  • n. (chiefly plural) Something disparaged as valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment…
  • interj. (pejorative) That (what has just been said) is untrue.

wish-wash

  • n. (archaic) Any weak, thin drink.

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