claptrap 的定义
- pretentious but insincere or empty language: His speeches seem erudite but analysis reveals them to be mere claptrap.
- any artifice or expedient for winning applause or impressing the public.
claptrap 近义词
empty talk
更多claptrap例句
- I do not want to hear any more of this claptrap and nonsense from you.
- A strategy also has to set achievable objectives, not just the usual American dreams and politically driven claptrap of hope.
- Mr Erman despises the common trick and claptrap resorted to by vulgar writers.
- If it was desired, we determined that it should be bought without extolling claptrap of any kind.
- His words are redolent of claptrap and fury, and are a mischievous element in the formation of public opinion.
- Alison is all fudge and claptrap, with his granite squares of infantry and his billows of cavalry.
- When he talked of 'the sacred purposes of humanity' it was not artificial claptrap in a protocol.