You’ve just got to love this! From the Oxford English Dictionary.
Definition of trumpery in English:
noun (plural trumperies) [mass noun]
1 Attractive articles of little value or use:
None of your woollendrapery, nor linendrapery, nor any of your frippery or trumpery. I hateostentation
1.1Practices or beliefs that are superficially or visuallyappealing but have little real value or worth:
I exposed their ideals as trumperytheatrical trumpery[as modifier]:that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves
adjective
that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves
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