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
"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
Ultimately, Dynamo's brand of streetbound trickery isn't about eloquence or flummery.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013
It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
