Crossword-Solution: CLAPTRAP 8 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
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
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
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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 Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Andrew Steinmetz 1996
The time for joking was past; and he must no longer yield to his love of astonishing people with claptrap and conjuring tricks.
The crystal stopper Maurice LeBlanc 1998
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.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1999
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.
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 2001
Come, Harness, you're a clever man, you don't believe all the Socialistic claptrap that's talked nowadays.
Strife (First Series Plays) John Galsworthy 2004

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…
Julia Quinn It's in His Kiss
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…
Philip Roth American Pastoral
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 …
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Sirens of Titan
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 33 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).