trumping
IPA: trˈʌmpɪŋ
noun
- The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
- (poetic, archaic) The sound of a trumpet.
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Examples of "trumping" in Sentences
- It’s tactics at the cost of strategy, short term trumping long term.
- PM-in-waiting Najib Razak has scored a major coup by 'trumping' Anwar Ibrahim in the defection game.
- And that, between the loss, losing the war in Iraq and losing our jobs, is kind of trumping other concerns.
- Sashal, I suspect very little of that survived Texas v. Johnson, so it’s not going to help much in trumping the absurd California statute.
- Hear that dreary blunderer, who has unwittingly contradicted what his chief has just asserted -- "trumping," as it were, "his partner's trick."
- If the Comcast rep is right about the website terms trumping the terms on the brochure, then it was the consumer's responsibility to check the website and make sure that it is "unlimited usage" and not "unlimited access."
- Well, I don't see how the framing of "fairness 'trumping' the right to discriminate" could possibly be wrong. the Supreme Court should have 10 justices, and when there was a 5-5 split, there would be a deathmatch between one of each of the opposing sides to determine the verdict.
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