What's the difference between applesauce and trumpery?
Applesauce
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Trumpery
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(n.) Deceit; fraud.
(n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
(a.) Worthless or deceptive in character.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Cruz’s aura of smug sanctimony, like his lack of humility, is striking even in an age of Trumpery.
(2) I suspect his importance will only grow, and if our republic survives the next four years (by which I mean, if its very foundations are not eroded beyond recognition) and perhaps even if it doesn’t, Obama will stand for a politics of human dignity, not a politics of shameful trumpery, hatred and rage.
(3) We live in an age of volatility, Trumpery and brutal caprice.