Claptrap Klap Trap Noun Pretentious Insincere Empty Language Speeches

What is she to sneer at a brave, enduring race of fellow-beings! Dress them in tawdry rags, locate them anywhere on the continent, write out their history in sounding claptrap , and she would be stirred by pathetic thrills. - John Trafford Clegg, David's Loom: a story of Rochdale's life in the early years of the nineteenth century , 1894

...it was on the whole an enormous piece of claptrap ; the room, almost vacant when I entered, began to fill. - Charotte Brontë, Villette , 1853