Another word for claptrap
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Noun
Pretentious, pompous speech or writing
- the state or quality of being turgid
- To speak or write in an angry or emotionally charged manner; rave.
- To express at length a complaint or negative opinion:
- To utter or express by ranting:
- The quality of being orotund.
- The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.
- A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and linen or flax.
- Any of several thick twilled cotton fabrics, such as corduroy, having a short nap.
- Pretentious speech or writing; pompous language.
- Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
- Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
Something that does not have or make sense
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Another word for claptrap
Noun
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- A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall.
- A bunk bed.
- A place for sleeping.
- Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
- Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
- To slobber; drool.
- To flow like spittle or saliva.
- To talk stupidly or childishly.
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