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

"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

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