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Definition of the day : « flummery »

  • As in knickknack : noun trinket; decorative piece
  • As in balderdash : noun nonsense
  • As in palaver : noun empty talk
  • As in fiddle-faddle : noun nonsense
  • As in flattery : noun false praise, compliments
  • As in frivolity : noun silliness, childishness
Example sentences :
  • There isn't one particle of flummery in Crondall's whole body.
  • Extract from : « The Message » by Alec John Dawson
  • And I can dish up a trifle of flummery in here and there conveniently, and—let me see.
  • Extract from : « In the Roar of the Sea » by Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Yes; all that flummery about merchant princes and so forth is nonsense.
  • Extract from : « A Widow's Tale and Other Stories » by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
  • In my opinion it's the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations.
  • Extract from : « Anne Of Green Gables » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Let me have the full particulars, and don't try on flummery.'
  • Extract from : « Caricature and Other Comic Art » by James Parton.
  • Flummery has ceased to be a popular preacher these twenty years.
  • Extract from : « Here and There in London » by J. Ewing Ritchie
  • And a young woman who doesn't go in for poetry, and dreaming, and all that kind of flummery.
  • Extract from : « Jimbo » by Algernon Blackwood
  • No flummery, that leaves a man tired and hungry when he leaves the table.
  • Extract from : « Hildegarde's Harvest » by Laura E. Richards
  • He had here no moral support for his just contempt of Popish flummery.
  • Extract from : « Mystery at Geneva » by Rose Macaulay
  • Their supper always consists of flummery, made of barley-meal.
  • Extract from : « Lachesis Lapponica » by Carl von Linn