Translation for 'claptrap' from English to French

claptrap {sg} [coll.]

âneries {f.pl} [fam.]

• "Secrets of the Super Psychics" was a Channel 4 documentary special in the UK, first shown in the "Equinox" strand in 1997, later reformatted as a shorter The Learning Channel episode in 1998: "Viewers eager to know more about the differences between science and claptrap should tune in".
• "Gibberish" is also used as an imprecation to denigrate or tar ideas or opinions the user disagrees with or finds irksome, a rough equivalent of "nonsense", "folderol", or "claptrap".
• Trouble is, we have had too many centuries of religious claptrap."
• It was followed by a rebuttal from Tyndall who described Painter's arguments as "sheer unadulterated claptrap".
• Nikki Tranter wrote "surely you would think with his obviously overwhelming ability to compose utter claptrap cleverly disguised as serious prophesizing, his lyrics might contain something a little more expressive than 'If you're not the one / Why does my heart feel glad today / If you're not the one / Then why does my hand fit yours this way.'" In his review for musicOMH, Michael Hubbard was even less positive, stating, "If You're Not the One is as vomit-inducing as anything the man in the plastic mask has ever wretched "(sic)" forth at the world".

• John Whittaker, a Professor of Archeology at Grinnell College, referred to Deloria's "Red Earth, White Lies" as "a wretched piece of Native American creationist claptrap that has all the flaws of the Biblical creationists he disdains...Deloria's style is drearily familiar to anyone who has read the Biblical creationist literature...At the core is a wishful attempt to discredit all science because some facts clash with belief systems.
• The British philosopher Stephen Law has described some belief systems (including belief in homeopathy, psychic powers, and alien abduction) as "claptrap" and says that such belief-systems can "draw people in and hold them captive so they become willing slaves of claptrap ...
• In 1977 the Lord Provost Mr Peter McCann called for the sacking of theatre bosses after a performance of Dracula which featured nude scenes he described as "kinky claptrap appealing only to mentally ill weirdos" ("Sunday Express", 13 March 1977).
• A critic from "Behindwoods" rated the film 0 out of 5 and opined that "To sum it all, Kalla Thuppaakki is unbelievably inane and is a tiring watch and makes you wonder what the director was smoking to come up with such claptrap".
• The freed Fox dismisses it as "medieval claptrap" that likely died with the general, though Sharpe believes otherwise.

• 64 summed it up as "harmless claptrap", while CVG Magazine commented on the "extremeley basic" graphics.
• In promoting the ideal that everyone is beautiful, Lionel Shriver described it as "wishful claptrap" and did not think children would be attracted to the product.
• Furthermore, the rhetoric on behalf of the rights of the Freedman was not claptrap but deeply held and very serious political philosophy.
• However, some have dismissed it for being undramatic or as pseudo-mystical claptrap.
• The device was reviewed by the AMA and criticized as "pseudomedical claptrap"; the manufacturer, Ideal Company, moved to England and was renamed "Neu-Vita Hygienic Institute"—to avoid prosecution.

• Rand scholar Mimi Reisel Gladstein later wrote that "reviewers seemed to vie with each other in a contest to devise the cleverest put-downs"; one called it "execrable claptrap", while another said it showed "remorseless hectoring and prolixity".