flummery
Example Sentences
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A festival with all the frills and extras and flummeries stripped away.
From The Guardian
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
“I think Meghan will cope - but she will find some of the flummery difficult to bear,” said Andrew Morton, who has penned a biography of the bride-to-be.
From Reuters
“I think Meghan will cope but she will find some of the flummery difficult to bear.”
From Reuters
Their research is superior–Chris Wallace using slides of actual budget numbers to destroy Trump’s budgetary flummery, Megyn Kelly using tape to demonstrate Trump’s policy reversals.
From Time
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
