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Significados de flummery em inglês

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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
Uso de flummery em inglês
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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