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
"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
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
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
I cannot too highly applaud the readiness with which these four gentlemen in black have thrown aside all the fopperies and flummeries which have their origin in a false state of society.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
