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
In his biography, Andrew Morton wrote that Diana was “deeply disenchanted with the protocol, the flummery and the artifice” of the family, and “the brittle formality” of royal life.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2020
"The production dispenses with conventional spectacle, colourful costumes and visual flummery," says The Guardian's Michael Billington.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2019
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
