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# trumpery

«trumpery» in Mova's school dictionary: **cheap, showy and worth very little, though it looks grand** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more trumpery); noun (trumperies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Trumpery means cheap, showy and worth very little, though it looks grand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trumpery/#m1)

2) A trumpery is a cheap, worthless trinket or toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trumpery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

cheap-looking rubbish in stories; a queen calls a gift a trumpery plaything to show she thinks little of it; in lessons it describes something that looks good but is worth nothing

### examples

- The shop sold trumpery rings that turned green in a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trumpery/#x1)
- The prince threw the trumpery toy onto the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trumpery/#x2)
- Do not be fooled by the trumpery glitter of the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trumpery/#x3)
- «See what a trumpery thing it is!» cried the stepmother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trumpery/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trumpery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trumpery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.