[responsivevoice] claptrap [/responsivevoice] [ klap-trap ]
The word of the day is ‘claptrap’.
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Empty talk
2. Absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas
3. Pompous or pretentious talk
4. Nonsense
1. Hindi – Dikhaave ka
2. Spanish – Burradas
3. French – Boniment
4. Mandarin – Pāishǒu
1. Shears loved this dry, claptrap way of announcing his triumphs.
2. I’m getting further and further away from this century and its claptrap.
3. The retort is on a par with the proposition, and both are claptrap.
4. Such sentiments are just pious claptrap.
5. it was claptrap, and meant to obtain popularity and assist the Ministerial interest at the election.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
bombast, bunk, drivel, nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, blarney, guff, blather, blether, hogwash, rot, baloney, tripe, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, hot air, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, twaddle, dribble, cobblers, stuff and nonsense, tosh, flannel, waffle, havers, garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, bunkum, tommyrot, gammon, bullshit, crap, bollocks, crapola, bulldust etc.
sense, cleverness, prudence, feeling, sensation, capability, comprehension, wisdom, intelligence, perception, rationality, shrewdness, levelheadedness, reasonability, sensibleness
Quotation:
I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I’m on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I’ll sit down at the desk and discover that what I’ve written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.
Rosemary Mahoney
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