trumpery

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɹʌmpəɹi/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk. countable,uncountable
    — I have ſold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glaſſe, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring, to keepe my Pack from faſting: […]
  2. Nonsense. countable,uncountable
    — Now upon the coming of Chriſt, very much, tho' not all, of this idolatrous Trumpery and Superſtition was driven out of the World: […]
  3. Deceit; fraud. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 1640, Richard Greenwey, The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie, publ. by Richard Whitaker, 182. Agrippina after this, more mad and wilfull then ever, gave out threatning and thundring ſpeeches: yet not forbearing the Princes eares, but crying, that Britannicus was now growen to mans eſtate : a true and worthy plant to receive his fathers Empire, which a grafted ſon by adoption now poſſeſſed by the injury and trumpery of his mother.
形容词 adj.
  1. Gaudy but worthless. not-comparable
    — He earnestly exhorted them all to be earnest in their studies, and to think nothing beneath them. Let them not pass over any cases as unimportant; for they must remember that some of the greatest principles of the law had been enunciated out of the most apparently trumpery cases that had come before the judges.

词形变化

trumperies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
trumperiness

词源

词源 1
From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).
词源 2
From Middle English trompery, from Middle French tromperie (“deceit”).
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