trumpery | ˈtrʌmp(ə)ri | archaic noun (plural trumperies) [mass noun] attractive articles of little value or use: "None of your woollen drapery, nor linen drapery, nor any of your frippery or trumpery. I hate ostentation."
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trumpery • practices or beliefs that are superficially or visually appealing but have little real value or worth: he exposed their ideals as trumpery | theatrical trumpery | [as modifier] : "that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves."
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ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting trickery): from Old French tromperie, from tromper ‘deceive’.
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it was all there in the name, in black and white, but we never bothered to check the dictionary.
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