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Meanings of mummery in English
Catalan
bufonada Spanish
mistificación Synonyms
Examples for "flummery"
Examples for "flummery"
1
Humphreys took an almost childish delight in gold braid and flummery.
2
Enough of this sort of flummery, my sweet nephew; I don't like it.
3
She gazed at them, half-feeling the flummery petals against the palm of her hand.
4
He has sowens and milk,' (oatmeal flummery) every night for his supper.
5
That's flummery, and you know and the Highness knows it.
Usage of mummery in English
1
Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.
2
But your hypocrisy and your mummery shall serve you to little purpose.
3
That's fine mummery in days like these when everybody is getting educated.
4
They too recognized him now, and realized that here was no mummery.
5
We have had enough, too, of Spanish etiquette and Italian mummery here.
6
Don Felipe shrugged his shoulders carelessly, saying, A truce to your mummery!
7
It sounds like the fee-faw-fum and mummery of a voodoo man.
8
It was better than a mummery, and I was glad to see it.
9
I might be entering the Hierarchy, in view of all this supernatural mummery!
10
Your papists keep these outlandish hours for their masses and mummery.
11
After the death of Mary this silly mummery was totally discontinued.
12
Some of the feiticeiras, however, play more dangerous tricks than this harmless mummery.
13
But William was fully determined to bring this mummery to a speedy close.
14
To say Mass, believing the Mass to be but a mummery, was detestable.
15
His religion is a mummery, and his Gospel-walkings nothing but dancing a masquerade.
16
His angry old eyes jerked Peter out of his slight mummery.
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Mummery across language varieties
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