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Example sentences for: claptrap

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(Yes, Rocky was claptrap, but Shakespeare in Love was indeed wonderful.)
I do find it telling that Hillary's latest theory about Bill's "abuse" as a child is the kind of psychological claptrap that gives liberalism a bad name.
Flytrap Claptrap
Offering up loutish claptrap used to require a different sort of justification.
Although a few critics find it too heavy with "only-in-the-movies claptrap" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), most praise the film because "it never slides down that slippery slope of sap that you keep expecting" (Jami Bernard, New York Daily News ). (Find out about the young-adult novel that is the basis for this film.)