flummery
Example Sentences
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"But he really just wanted to cut through all the flummery and get people to see him for what he was."
From Fox News • Apr. 18, 2021
His career in flummery and flimflam was launched when he left reform school at age 14 to work as a Coney Island pitchman, then joined Dr. W.H.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2018
Robbie Collin described it as "so stuffed with extraneous faff and flummery that it often barely feels like Tolkien at all - more a dire, fan-written internet tribute".
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2012
Yet there they are, doing the job properly at last, avoiding fanfare and flummery, earning the right to admiration.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2012
It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
