flummery

Example Sentences

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And it raises the question of whether a brand can succeed simply by presenting the goods, without flummery.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

"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

"The production dispenses with conventional spectacle, colourful costumes and visual flummery," says The Guardian's Michael Billington.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2019

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