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 consequence is that I judge of people not by their creeds, not by their rites, not by their mummeries, but by their actions.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
He had seen mysteries, mummeries, morris-dances, and Christmas revels in his own hall at Charlecote.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
These are the “Clairvoyants,” who do business by means of certain select mummeries of their own, and who make a great deal of money in their trade.
From The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
