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Claptrap   Listen
noun
Claptrap  n.  
1.
A contrivance for clapping in theaters. (Obs.)
2.
A trick or device to gain applause, especially pretentious but empty rhetoric; humbug.





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"Claptrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... though the last mentioned, under its original founders, led to mystical claptrap, and to the abuse of the strong superstitious ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones
... presume to no possibility of knowledge of the real being of God. They will have no positive definition of God at all. They will certainly not indulge in "that something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness" (not defined) or any defective claptrap of that sort. They will content themselves with denying the self-contradictory absurdities of an obstinately anthropomorphic theology,[50] they will regard the whole of being, within themselves and without, as the sufficient revelation ...
— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells
... everyone knows that it hardly lets a day pass without an ugly caricature of him. What I object to in this is that it is talking Brummagem—it is not "devising liberal things" but spiteful, superficial, illiberal things. It is claptrap and temporary deception of the "Patriotism before Politics" ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... destructive of their powers, and to tax their energies, not to concentrate the greatest quantity of thought on the least possible space of canvas, but to produce the greatest quantity of glitter and claptrap in the shortest possible time. To the idler and the trickster in art, no system can be more advantageous; but to the man who is really desirous of doing something worth having lived for—to a man of industry, energy, or feeling, we believe it to be the cause of the ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin
... Mr. Hays, with his insufferable claptrap about absolute unity as a blanket under which to gather votes while the very existence of the nation is threatened more ominously than anybody west of the Alleghanies—or in Washington, for that matter,—seems to realize, the sooner he goes home and takes ...
— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous


Words linked to "Claptrap" :   magniloquence, grandiosity, rant, rhetoric, blah, bombast, ornateness, fustian, grandiloquence


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