Crossword-Solution: CLAPTRAP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Claptrap | n. | A contrivance for clapping in theaters. |
| Claptrap | n. | A trick or device to gain applause; humbug. |
| Claptrap | a. | Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal. |
We have 51 clues for the answer “CLAPTRAP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Showy, empty talk. | 1 answer |
| Pretentious prose | 1 answer |
| Insincere, empty talk. | 1 answer |
| Empty language | 1 answer |
| Critic's version of phony histrionics. | 1 answer |
| Showy and cheap | 2 answers |
| Campaign promises, often | 2 answers |
| A lot of hooey | 2 answers |
| PRETENTIOUS language | 2 answers |
| Pretentious nonsense | 4 answers |
| INSINCERE talk | 4 answers |
| Pretentious talk | 4 answers |
| nonsene | 5 answers |
| Nonsensical talk | 8 answers |
| CAMPAIGN PROMISES | 10 answers |
| empty words | 14 answers |
| piffle | 15 answers |
| Foolish talk | 22 answers |
| flapdoodle | 22 answers |
| Meaningless talk | 24 answers |
| Hokum | 27 answers |
| mumbo-jumbo | 31 answers |
| Mumbo jumbo | 33 answers |
| Tommyrot! | 36 answers |
| empty talk | 37 answers |
| IDLE words | 42 answers |
| Guff | 47 answers |
| Bosh | 47 answers |
| BANANA oil | 50 answers |
| Hogwash | 52 answers |
| "Abracadabra!" | 54 answers |
| bunkum | 55 answers |
| applesauce | 55 answers |
| Hoo-ey! | 58 answers |
| Twaddle | 58 answers |
| Bunk | 59 answers |
| hot air | 61 answers |
| inanity | 61 answers |
| Rubbish | 64 answers |
| Poppycock | 64 answers |
| Trash | 69 answers |
| Babble | 70 answers |
| Patter | 74 answers |
| Balderdash | 74 answers |
| Drivel | 75 answers |
| Humbug! | 75 answers |
| pretext | 78 answers |
| Pretense | 80 answers |
| Bull | 81 answers |
| Baloney | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CLAPTRAP (5)
That morbid wretch, Alexander Pope, said, 'Every woman is at heart a rake;' and a recent writer in the _Times_ puts more venom in the dictum by saying, 'Every woman is (or likes) at heart a rake.' Both these opinions may be set down as mere claptrap, witty, but vile.
The time for joking was past; and he must no longer yield to his love of astonishing people with claptrap and conjuring tricks.
They seemed to me nothing but the most deplorable claptrap--as indeed they always must to anyone who does not feel the same emotion as the authors felt when they were writing.
Then there is the favorite claptrap of the “natural frontier.” The Frenchman yearns to be bounded by the Rhine and the Alps; and next follows the cry, “Let France take her place among nations, and direct, as she ought to do, the affairs of Europe.” These are the two chief articles contained in the new imperial programme, if we may credit the journal which has been established to advocate the cause.
Come, Harness, you're a clever man, you don't believe all the Socialistic claptrap that's talked nowadays.
Quotes with CLAPTRAP (3)
Claptrap last week,” Lady D announced. “I think the priest is getting old.” Gareth opened his mouth, but before he could say a word, his grandmother’s cane swung around in a remarkably steady horizontal arc. “Don’t,” she warned, “make a comment beginning with the words, ‘Coming from you…’”“I wouldn’t dream of it,” he demurred.“Of course you would,” she stated. “You wouldn’t be my grandson if you wouldn’t.” She turned to Hyacinth. “Don’t you agree?” To her credit, Hyacinth fol…
This kindly unjudging judgment of the Swede could well have been a new development in Jerry, compassion a few hours old. That can happen when people die--the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but…
Oh Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia — what could we do for Thee that Thou couldst not do for Thyself one octillion times better? Nothing. What could we do or say that could possibly interest Thee? Nothing. Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. No …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).