claptrap

He thought it was claptrap and could not think of such a thing.

Its complete claptrap to think children have to attend every single day.

"Our soldiers would not be sucked in by such claptrap."

The rest of the claptrap is just social control.

Cut out that claptrap and keep your hair on.

This sounds like a piece of claptrap, but it is strictly true.

"Something other than that claptrap out there," I jerked my head toward the front of the store.

They're full of wisdom and insights, but otherwise total claptrap.

Just have a civil ceremony and dump the religious claptrap.

It could all sound like so much claptrap and clichés, but it's also fact.

But how do you sell that marvelous claptrap to a modern audience?

Knowing this to be sheer claptrap, I responded in kind.

Trouble is, we have had too many centuries of religious claptrap."

But it tends to get buried under tons of claptrap.

Call it cheap, but this sort of theatrical claptrap can be fun.

And what is this claptrap about them being elected?

No sign here of all that doomsday claptrap about technology stocks.

It's claptrap of this sort up with which the average sports fan and news observer must put.

Sorry for the claptrap, but the rules are important to all of us.'

Yet in the face of this particular story such sentiments can seem like pious claptrap.

Or was this no more than sentimental social claptrap?

In my view, most of it is a lot of irrelevant claptrap.

But I'd wait a few minutes; the priest will be finished with his claptrap by then."

Just the kind of claptrap a certain segment of the American people would eat up.

He'd never heard such a heap of unadulterated claptrap in his entire life.