flummery
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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
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
There was, of course, plenty of mildly baffling flummery, and I particularly enjoyed seeing the Lord Mayor of London's mourning sword, carried aloft before the Queen and Prince Philip as they walked into St Paul's.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2013
It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
It would have been filled with fruit, flummeries or blancmanges, biscuits, gateaux, jellies and ice cream.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
Dishes included white soup, partridge pie and jelly desserts or flummeries.
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 Rosa Nouchette Carey
