CLAPTRAP vs FUSTIAN: NOUN
- Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
- Figuratively, an artifice or device to elicit applause or gain popularity; deceptive show or pretense.
- A trick or device to gain applause, especially pretentious but empty rhetoric; humbug.
- Pretentious, insincere, or empty language.
- A strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
- Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- 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.
- Formerly, a stout cloth, supposed to have been of cotton or cotton and flax.
- In present use, a stout twilled cotton fabric, especially that which has a short nap, variously called corduroy, moleskin, beaverteen, velveteen, thickset, etc., according to the way in which it is finished. See pillow.
- An inflated or turgid style of speaking or writing, characterized by the use of high-sounding phrases and exaggerated metaphors, and running into hyperbole and rant; empty phrasing.
- A potation composed of the yolks of eggs, white wine or other liquor, lemon, and spices.
- Synonyms Turgidness, Rant, etc. See bombast.
- A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
- An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
- A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen
- Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech
CLAPTRAP vs FUSTIAN: ADJECTIVE
- Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
- Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic.
- Pompous, bombastic, and ranting.
- Made of or as if of fustian.
CLAPTRAP vs FUSTIAN: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Designing or designed merely to win approval or catch applause.
- Pompous in style; ridiculously tumid; bombastic.
- Made of fustian.
CLAPTRAP vs FUSTIAN: RELATED WORDS
- Balderdash, Gobbledygook, Bullshit, Mumbo jumbo, Blather, Twaddle, Drivel, Pitch, Rot, Dung, Nonsense, Blah, Fustian, Rant, Bombast
- Overdetermined, Polemically, Mummery, Brownism, Unpoetic, Fustiness, Wishfulness, Hifalutin, Rebarbative, Grandiloquence, Heretofore, Rant, Blah, Bombast, Claptrap
CLAPTRAP vs FUSTIAN: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Piffle, Balderdash, Gobbledygook, Bullshit, Mumbo jumbo, Blather, Drivel, Pitch, Rot, Dung, Nonsense, Blah, Fustian, Rant, Bombast
- Overdetermined, Polemically, Mummery, Brownism, Unpoetic, Fustiness, Wishfulness, Hifalutin, Rebarbative, Grandiloquence, Heretofore, Rant, Blah, Bombast, Claptrap
CLAPTRAP vs FUSTIAN: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- And bhakths fall for this claptrap hook, line and sinker.
- Return to the claptrap and give it to him.
- Unlike many composers, Plagge is able to discuss his music clearly and without pedantic claptrap.
- Or rather, his piece of dystopian paranoid claptrap filled with spelling and grammar errors.
- Chairman, I have never heard such a load of claptrap in all my life.
- Did you get the missions from Claptrap on Sanctuary?
- And Russell, I agree with you, this is claptrap.
- That stuff about different climates is complete claptrap, Barb.
- Detox: flushing out poison or absorbing dangerous claptrap?
- This site is largely based on racist claptrap.
- And fustian how to grow a small business is cloth-of-gold, in his eyes, when it covers a stout heart in the right place.
- It was syndicated by NEA, scoring a huge success with readers after the January 1922 arrival of the fustian Major Hoople.
- It is wholly free from declamation, and from every kind of fustian.
- Blair's voice was toneless and confused and uttering total fustian.
- His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets.
- Twere better to have them of fustian, quoth my father.
- SYN: Rhodomontade, braggadocio, gasconade, bluster, inflatedness, pomposity, exaggerativeness, fustian.
- Fustian griefs etchers normalises quartz shipwreck groggy reoccupying gratification.
CLAPTRAP vs FUSTIAN: QUESTIONS
- How many achievements does Claptrap's new robot revolution add-on have?
- Why is Claptrap looking at me from the top of platform?
- Is it hard to hear all that Claptrap from Steven Spielberg?
- How many heads and skins can be unlocked for Claptrap?
- Where can I find the Claptrap in Rust Commons West?
- What happens when you complete Claptrap's secret stash?
- Where to find Claptrap's Secret Stash in Borderlands?
- What is the Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap?
- N/A