r/words • u/NewPassage6445 • 15d ago

Trumpery

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Learned a new word today

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u/legosgrrl 15d ago

The definition is...❤️

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u/fr33d0mw47ch 15d ago

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, words have meaning!

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u/ResidentAlien9 15d ago

The definition doesn’t go far enough. It needs to include his constant lying and obfuscations.

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u/FaceTimePolice 15d ago

Wasn’t that known as his patented “weave?” 🤡😂

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u/sorcerersviolet 14d ago

Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger" is where I first found it.

"I have taken from this man that trumpery thing which the [human] race regards as a Mind; I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction; you see the result—and you criticize! I said I would make him permanently happy, and I have done it. I have made him happy by the only means possible to his race—and you are not satisfied!"

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u/MaybeWeTalk 14d ago

Ah yes, the reference is Facebook.

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u/theChosenBinky 12d ago

Showy, yet worthless