flummery
Example Sentences
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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
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
Yet there they are, doing the job properly at last, avoiding fanfare and flummery, earning the right to admiration.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2012
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.
