Antonyms for claptrap

Grammar : Noun

Spell : klap-trap

Phonetic Transcription : ˈklæpˌtræp

sense

Definition of claptrap

Origin : c.1730, "trick to 'catch' applause," a stage term; from clap (v.) + trap (n.). Extended sense of "cheap, showy language" is from 1819; hence "nonsense, rubbish."

noun empty talk

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for claptrap

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