flummery

Example Sentences

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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

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

Robbie Collin described it as "so stuffed with extraneous faff and flummery that it often barely feels like Tolkien at all - more a dire, fan-written internet tribute".

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2012

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

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor