flummery in a sentence

Examples

1. He must have arranged the charade in order to judge for himself whether Archie and Margot were genuinely involved or the marriage license was flummery.
2. The word has been all but banned at its headquarters on Madison Avenue, where bureaucratic flummery like " excess of budget " is preferred.
3. This blancmange styled dish became so popular outside Wales that it got a new name, flummery, as the English couldn't pronounce the original.
4. The form of the change _ as " letters patent " in an official publication _ give a hint of the flummery that still surrounds the monarchy:
5. Anyone can prattle nonsense, and they'll always be able to find people to believe it, especially if they can dress it up in superstitious flummery.
6. A pint of flummery was suggested as an alternative to of bread and a of new milk for the supper of sick inmates in Irish workhouses in the 1840s.
7. If such commitments do succeed in making the rich world a little less selfish in its dealings with the poor world, the puff and flummery will have been worth while.
8. "' Flummery "'is a starch-based sweet soft dessert pudding known to have been popular in Britain and Ireland from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
9. In Australia, post World War II, flummery was the name given to a different foodstuff, a mousse dessert made with beaten evaporated milk, sugar, and gelatine.
10. Looking around, there were other bows toward criticism by many Laborites that the pomp, flummery and general dressing up in strange clothes that weaves through British ceremonial tradition is outdated.