flummery

Example Sentences

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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

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