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 →

2) A trumpery is a cheap, worthless trinket or toy. tree →

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 →
• The prince threw the trumpery toy onto the fire. tree →
• Do not be fooled by the trumpery glitter of the fair. tree →
• «See what a trumpery thing it is!» cried the stepmother. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «trumpery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.