Translation for "trumpery" to spanish
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Translation examples
'Such as why was I moved by Pete's trumpery dolls.
–Tales como por qué me conmovieron los muñecos de relumbrón de Pete.
noun
Here, Lucy, Moll, come to the fire, and dry your trumpery.
Eso, Lucy, Moll, venid junto al fuego y secad vuestros oropeles.
He had not really been afraid that a sensible female would succumb to the lure of such trumpery magnificence, but when he rode away from the Priory there was an unacknowledged relief in his breast.
Aunque en el fondo no temía que una mujer sensata pudiera sucumbir al hechizo de semejante esplendor de oropel, cuando se había marchado del priorato lo había hecho con profundo alivio, aunque no lo reconociera.
He did his best to persuade her that the aquamarines were mere trumpery, but when she laughed at him, and insisted that they were charming, he said: “Well, well, if you think so indeed I will buy it, for you have excellent taste, my dear, and I daresay you know best!”
Él trató de convencerla de que las aguamarinas no eran más que oropel, pero como ella se riera e insistiera en que eran preciosas, acabo diciendo: —Está bien, está bien. Si tan segura estás, lo compraré, porque tienes un gusto excelente, querida, y sin duda entiendes más que yo.
adjective
He expressed no interest in ‘frontier incidents or punitive brawls’, or ‘such trumpery expeditions against semi-barbarous peoples’.7 If they were relevant it was as a potential cause of a big war.
no se sintió en ningún momento atraído por el estudio de los «incidentes fronterizos, las batidas de castigo o las frívolas expediciones dirigidas contra poblaciones semibárbaras».7 Solo tenían importancia como causa potencial de una guerra de gran magnitud.
adjective
He has fooled you with a trumpery ring and a pretend priest so that he could get you into bed.” “No.”
Eduardo te ha engañado con un anillo carente de valor y un falso sacerdote para poder llevarte a la cama. —No.
he suggested, and immediately she saw that the lily of the valley was mere trumpery compared to the small round stone, blue as a mountain lake, with little sparks of light all round it.
—sugirió Lucius, y ella vio de inmediato que el lirio era una cosa sin valor comparada con la piedrecita redonda, azul como un lago de montaña, que lanzaba por toda su superficie destellos minúsculos.
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