flummery
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Look carefully and some guide to the reign to come will be seen behind the flummery and pomp.
From BBC ● May 5, 2023
And it raises the question of whether a brand can succeed simply by presenting the goods, without flummery.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
"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
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
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
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
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 Carey, Rosa Nouchette
