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Example sentences for: claptrap

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Offering up loutish claptrap used to require a different sort of justification.
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.
(Yes, Rocky was claptrap, but Shakespeare in Love was indeed wonderful.)
When his Majic Bus students encountered a couple of belligerent Buchananites spouting nativist claptrap, Brinkley's immediate reaction was to treat the pair as loonies and hustle his students back onto the bus.
What sort of ancient sexist claptrap is this?