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

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

Twain adopts the persona of the rough, honest, no-nonsense Yankee, determined to be unimpressed by almost everything he sees, all the flummery of European so-called culture.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2012

It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor