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claptrap
absurdity, balderdash, bull, empty words, formal fallacy, hocus-pocus, jargon, non sequitur, rant, stultiloquence
Definition
n.
pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Last update: June 23, 2015
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He abhorred
claptrap
and specious effects, and aimed at high standards of artistic expression.
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He had no
claptrap
, no great cause, none of the disease of pruriency which came into fashion with Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.
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