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Definition of the day : « claptrap »
- noun empty talk
- Shears loved this dry, claptrap way of announcing his triumphs.
- Extract from : « The Blonde Lady » by Maurice Leblanc
- My dears, do let me beg of you not to be caught by claptrap.
- Extract from : « Out in the Forty-Five » by Emily Sarah Holt
- Confound you, do you know who you are talking to, Mr. Claptrap?
- Extract from : « A Tender Attachment » by George Melville Baker
- I'm getting further and further away from this century and its claptrap.
- Extract from : « The March Family Trilogy, Complete » by William Dean Howells
- The retort is on a par with the proposition, and both are claptrap.
- Extract from : « If Not Silver, What? » by John W. Bookwalter
- "I guess we'd better shet her claptrap once and fer all," he said.
- Extract from : « From the Valley of the Missing » by Grace Miller White
- Mr Erman despises the common trick and claptrap resorted to by vulgar writers.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848 » by Various
- It was a claptrap, and meant to obtain popularity and assist the Ministerial interest at the election.
- Extract from : « The Greville Memoirs (Third Part) Volume II (of II) » by Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
- But it dared an extremely non-popular subject, and treated that subject with an audacious disregard of anything like claptrap.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury
- The Governor-General used to say they were vulgar and that it was all claptrap, but that never seemed to me quite fair.
- Extract from : « Margarita's Soul » by Ingraham Lovell