mummery
noun
the performance of mummers.
mummeries
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pluralof mummery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He grew cold to newsmen, turned his press conferences into funereal mummeries, finally began canceling them altogether.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter, merciless pleasure in the hard facts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The banquet being concluded, a series of the most magnificent masks and mummeries, prepared for the occasion, was introduced.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
But what useful purpose can these mummeries serve?
From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Eugène Sue
Pitiable and disgusting as the scene was I could not help laughing at the mummeries of the fellow.
From Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor
