What on earth did I do to get on Steve Hilton's text list? Or is this a phishing attempt?
Evan
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![Trump, [vt. Fr. tromper.]
1. To trick or impose on. "To trick or trump mankind."
2. To impose unfairly; to obtrude.
“Authors have been trumped on us.”
“To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.”
Trump'er-y, n. [Fr. tromperie, deceit, from
tromper, to deceive; O. Sp. trompar.]
1. Deceit; fraud. [Obs.]
“Britannicus was now grown to man's estate, a true and worthy plant to receive his father's empire, which a grafted on by adoption now possessed by the injury and trumpery of his mother.”
2. Something serving to deceive by false ghow or pretenses; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
“The trumpery in my house bring hither, For state to catch these thieves.”
“Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.”
Trump'er-y, a.
Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little ring."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ypeqct7qlgu7esm2aoj5wa66/bafkreiac7dzvthov3iwvngl7ymqtlxtfdvfzmzijyaexm2klhgqus6av7i)
