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mummery
[ muhm-uh-ree ]
noun
- the performance of mummers.
- any performance, ceremony, etc., regarded as absurd, false, or ostentatious.
mummery
/ 藞尘蕦尘蓹谤瑟 /
noun
- a performance by mummers
- hypocritical or ostentatious ceremony
Example Sentences
But what was once the norm can now seem a kind of ableist mummery, which this production attempts to sidestep by offering a Richard with no physical impairments at all.
Scalia writes that Justice Anthony Kennedy鈥檚 majority opinion is written 鈥渋n a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,鈥 overflowing with 鈥渕ummeries,鈥 鈥渟illy extravagances,鈥 and 鈥渟training-to-be-memorable passages.鈥
鈥淎 show, as you have said. Let them have their mummery. When they are gone, we will make a fruit market of what they leave behind.鈥
If we lose the war, she ought to take up mummery, she has a gift for it.
"It would seem you've had quite an adventure. These men you heard, you say they spoke of juggling and mummery?"
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