Claptrap

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  • noun. Pretentious, insincere, or empty language.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
  • noun. Figuratively, an artifice or device to elicit applause or gain popularity; deceptive show or pretense.
  • Designing or designed merely to win approval or catch applause.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
  • noun. A trick or device to gain applause, especially pretentious but empty rhetoric; humbug.
  • adjective. Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
    • Word Usage
    "Trying to shame me with religious claptrap is less useful than tits on a boar."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grandiloquence  grandiosity  magniloquence  ornateness  rhetoric  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    backpackers  baloney  bosh  coxcombs  fustian  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    absurdity  amphigory  argument  argument by analogy  argumentum ad baculum  
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