Synonyms of trumpery

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adjective

as in cheap

of low quality

trumpery knickknacks from some souvenir shop

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheap
• terrible
• poor
• inferior
• rotten
• coarse
• bad
• worthless
• common
• gimcrack
• rubbishy
• useless
• wretched
• schlock
• execrable
• shoddy
• cheapjack
• trashy
• counterfeit
• junky
• miserable
• bum
• mediocre
• cheesy
• fake
• sleazy
• crappy
• lousy
• valueless
• shlock
• shlocky
• schlocky
• low-grade
• meretricious
• tawdry
• low-rent
• cut-rate
• second-rate
• bargain-basement
• gaudy
• kitsch
• showy
• ostentatious
• indifferent
• kitschy
• garish
• shabby
• glitzy
• el cheapo
• tacky
• lackluster
• sham
• flashy
• swank
• phony
• seedy
• splashy
• second-class
• brummagem
• swanky
• phoney
• ultracheap
• supercheap

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fine
• good
• excellent
• superior
• elegant
• tasteful
• handsome
• first-rate
• first-class
• high-grade
• top-notch
• refined
• polished
• handcrafted

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• fine
• good
• excellent
• superior
• elegant
• tasteful
• handsome
• first-rate
• first-class
• high-grade
• top-notch
• refined
• polished
• handcrafted

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trumpery

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noun

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

a lot of the news pertaining to the war effort was loaded with so much trumpery that no one knew how it was really proceeding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nonsense
• garbage
• rubbish
• silliness
• nuts
• stupidity
• blah
• twaddle
• piffle
• humbuggery
• drool
• claptrap
• balderdash
• bunk
• trash
• foolishness
• muck
• bunkum
• hokum
• tosh
• poppycock
• falderal
• flapdoodle
• baloney
• folderol
• blither
• hogwash
• jazz
• tommyrot
• guff
• blatherskite
• bosh
• hooey
• fiddlesticks
• beans
• insanity
• craziness
• bilge
• folly
• humbug
• madness
• absurdity
• malarkey
• crock
• buncombe
• bull
• fiddle
• punk
• blather
• blarney
• fiddle-faddle
• rot
• boloney
• drivel
• codswallop
• fudge
• crapola
• blah-blah
• tarradiddle
• malarky
• horsefeathers
• taradiddle
• foolery
• applesauce
• hoodoo
• senselessness
• flannel
• moonshine
• idiocy
• imbecility
• fatuity
• asininity
• absurdness
• nerts
• inanity
• tomfoolery
• slush
• greek
• hokeypokey
• witlessness
• gas
• rigmarole
• lunacy
• kookiness
• hot air
• inaneness
• hocus-pocus
• hoity-toity
• rigamarole
• monkey business
• shenanigan(s)
• monkeyshine(s)
• double-talk

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonableness
• sensibleness
• rationality
• reasonability
• sense
• horse sense
• wisdom
• discernment
• judgment
• judgement
• levelheadedness
• common sense

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• reasonableness
• sensibleness
• rationality
• reasonability
• sense
• horse sense
• wisdom
• discernment
• judgment
• judgement
• levelheadedness
• common sense

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