puppetry

[ puhp-i-tree ]

noun

, plural pup·pet·ries.

1. the art of making puppets or presenting puppet shows.
2. the action of puppets.
3. mummery; mere show.
4. puppets collectively.

puppetry

/ ˈpʌpɪtrɪ /

noun

1. the art of making and manipulating puppets and presenting puppet shows
2. unconvincing or specious presentation

Word History and Origins

Origin of puppetry¹

First recorded in 1520–30; puppet, -ry

Example Sentences

Periodically throughout the movie, the Candyman legend is unfurled for us in a series of beautifully executed sequences of shadow puppetry.

From Time

At that point, in a bit of cosmic puppetry, the descent stage lowered the rover gently to the surface on nylon cables.

From Time

It was a hand, it was a puppet, it was half-CGI, but mostly puppetry.

From The Daily Beast

The prints were inspired by characters that populate Sicilian street fairs and puppetry stages.

From The Daily Beast

The neighbors, an elderly couple, help Molly, who is mute, to stage an elaborate puppetry show.

From The Daily Beast

The animal realm comes alive to us as puppetry, and the human invention of war comes to seem more and more unreal.

From The Daily Beast

Watching these creatures move across the stage is to be reminded how ancient an art puppetry is.

From The Daily Beast

Still he had no delight in shuffling a puppetry; he would have preferred automatic figures.

From Project Gutenberg

They are sick of the woodeny puppetry they dispense, as on a race-course to the roaring frivolous.

From Project Gutenberg

He was too studied a believer in the puppetry of men and women to make them more than ridiculous.

From Project Gutenberg