1) Babble 2) Baloney 3) Blah 4) Bombast 5) Bunk 6) Campaign promises, often 7) Contrived and foolish talk 8) Empty language 9) Exclusively Saxon word 10) Exclusively Anglo word 11) Fustian 12) Grandiloquence 13) Grandiosity 14) Humbug 15) Magniloquence 16) Mumbo jumbo 17) Mumbo-jumbo 18) Nonsense 19) Pretentious prose
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1) Bilge 2) Blah 3) Bombast 4) Bosh 5) Bunkum 6) Drivel 7) Flummery 8) Fustian 9) Garbage 10) Hokum 11) Jive 12) Mumbo jumbo 13) Nonsense 14) Rot 15) Rubbish 16) Tripe
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showy language designed to gain praise; nonsense
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• (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug. • (n.) A contrivance for clapping in theaters. • (a.) Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
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Clap'trap` (klăp'trăp`)
noun 1. A contrivance for clapping in theaters. [ Obsolete]
2. A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
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Clap'trap` adjective Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
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pretentious but insincere or empty language: His speeches seem erudite but analysis reveals them to be mere claptrap. · any artifice or expedient for winning applause or impressing the public.
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