flummery
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Anything we could do to stop this flummery from clogging our airwaves, inboxes and video streams would probably be worse than the problem itself.
From Fox News ● Jun. 12, 2020
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
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
Twain adopts the persona of the rough, honest, no-nonsense Yankee, determined to be unimpressed by almost everything he sees, all the flummery of European so-called culture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2012
It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Dishes included white soup, partridge pie and jelly desserts or flummeries.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
It would have been filled with fruit, flummeries or blancmanges, biscuits, gateaux, jellies and ice cream.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flattery, handholding and creative fudgery that are at the heart of diplomacy are the very sort of fancy-pants flummeries that the President abhors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Great men are not always wise; even intellectual veterans like Dr. Johnson, and others I can mention, if you only give me time, have their hallucinations, fads, fancies, and flummeries.
From Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Carey
