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Forgery vs Trumpery - What's the difference?

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Forgery is a related term of trumpery.


As nouns the difference between forgery and trumpery

is that forgery is the act of forging metal into shape while trumpery is worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.

As an adjective trumpery is

gaudy but of no value.

forgery

Noun

(forgeries)
  • The act of forging metal into shape.
  • :
  • The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
  • (lb) An invention, creation.
  • Synonyms

    * counterfeit * fake

    Derived terms

    * forger

    trumpery

    English

    Noun

    (trumperies)
  • worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
  • (Prospero, to Ariel)
    This was well done, my bird.
    Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
    The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither
    For stale to catch these thieves.
  • nonsense
  • * South
  • Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.
  • (obsolete) deceit; fraud
  • (Grenewey)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • gaudy but of no value
  • * 1954 , Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings
  • “Of all the trumpery moonshine!” Mr Wilkins exploded. “What do you think you're playing at, Jennings!”