mummery

SEE DEFINITION OF mummery

as injoke
as inmasquerade
as insport
as inha-ha
as informality
as inhocus-pocus

Synonyms for mummery

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Antonyms for mummery

formality

noun. etiquette, protocol

ha-ha

noun. joke

Word Origin & History

1520s, "performance of mumming," from Old French mommerie, from momer (see mummer). Transferred sense of "ridiculous ceremony or ritual" is from 1540s.

Example Sentences formummery

But your hypocrisy and your mummery shall serve you to little purpose.

That is as good as going to Church to be the central figures of the mummery of priests.

Even to keep an open mind himself to all the muss and mummery of the Church!

They too recognized him now, and realized that here was no mummery.

It was all humbug––all this mummery about intuitions and unerring perception and inscrutability.

These latter had, each of them, some mummery peculiar to himself.

All mummery was to be forbidden, and all monarchy to be called mummery.

For the rest, if this mummery humbles Lord Warwick, gramercy!

What an exhibition of mummery it was in that time-begrimed temple!

Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.

mummery

More words related to mummery

formalities

formality

ha-ha

hocus-pocus

joke

jokes