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flummery

noun as in fiddle-faddle

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Oh, but surely if we have to call ourselves Wurzel-Flummery it would count as earned income.

The condition is that with this money—fifty thousand pounds—I take the name of—ah—Wurzel-Flummery.

My dear Mr. Crawshaw, you didn't think—you didn't really think that anybody had been called Wurzel-Flummery before?

The Flummery boys and ever so many more of the party are at the front with their regiments.

Money was squandered on useless court-flummery while men were toiling sixteen hours a day for bread.

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On this page you'll find 136 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flummery, such as: bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, crock, and drivel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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