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Claptrap

noun
1.
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.  Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant.





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"Claptrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... been thrilled by the greatest actors, as with matchless skill they gave rein to their genius in tragic situations; but how inconceivably tawdry and cheap such pictures seemed in comparison with this! The claptrap of the music, the lights, the posing, the wry faces, the gasps, lunges, staggerings, rolling eyes,—how flimsy and colorless, how mocking and grotesque, they all appeared beside this simple, uncouth, but ...
— The Ape, the Idiot & Other People • W. C. Morrow
 
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Words linked to "Claptrap" :   magniloquence, grandiloquence, ornateness, grandiosity, rhetoric



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