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Significats de flummery en anglès

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Meaningless ceremonies and flattery.

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        Examples for "mummery"
        Examples for "mummery"
        1
        Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.
        A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
        2
        But your hypocrisy and your mummery shall serve you to little purpose.
        Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
        3
        That's fine mummery in days like these when everybody is getting educated.
        Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts
        4
        They too recognized him now, and realized that here was no mummery.
        The Sea-Hawk
        5
        We have had enough, too, of Spanish etiquette and Italian mummery here.
        Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
        Ús de flummery en anglès
        1
        Humphreys took an almost childish delight in gold braid and flummery.
        George Washington
        2
        Enough of this sort of flummery, my sweet nephew; I don't like it.
        A Hungarian Nabob
        3
        She gazed at them, half-feeling the flummery petals against the palm of her hand.
        Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1
        4
        He has sowens and milk,' (oatmeal flummery) every night for his supper.
        The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer / With an Introductor...
        5
        That's flummery, and you know and the Highness knows it.
        Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3
        6
        I said them because I felt them, and I hate flummery and thick- headedness.
        Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02
        7
        What a blessing to see a nice clean English potato again without any flummery!
        Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
        8
        It was, in his bluntly stated opinion, a waste of breath: indulgence, flummery, lies.
        Imajica: Complete Edition
        9
        There were no Christmas trees, of course, nor much of the other flummery of today.
        The Guardian
        10
        There was no hocus-pocus or flummery; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes.
        Caves of Terror
        11
        So should church ritual -it obscured the radicalism of the gospel with nostalgic flummery.
        The Guardian
        12
        But there's too much flummery, and he was a hundred times more than all that.
        My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
        13
        Readers will no doubt think that this is official flummery; and so in fact it is.
        An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
        14
        That was a nice bit of flummery, and went down the throats of the people delightfully.
        Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
        15
        And the result of all this flummery was:
        Sister Teresa
        16
        We all know what all that flummery means.
        Framley Parsonage
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