Antonyms for flummery

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fluhm-uh-ree

Phonetic Transcription : ˈflʌm ə ri

Definition of flummery

Origin : 1620s, a type of coagulated food, from Welsh llymru "sour oatmeal jelly boiled with the husks," of uncertain origin. Figurative use, of flattery, empty talk, is from 1740s.

As in knickknack : noun trinket; decorative piece
As in balderdash : noun nonsense
As in palaver : noun empty talk
As in fiddle-faddle : noun nonsense
As in flattery : noun false praise, compliments
As in frivolity : noun silliness, childishness

Example sentences :

There isn't one particle of flummery in Crondall's whole body.
Extract from : « The Message » by Alec John Dawson

And I can dish up a trifle of flummery in here and there conveniently, and—let me see.
Extract from : « In the Roar of the Sea » by Sabine Baring-Gould

Yes; all that flummery about merchant princes and so forth is nonsense.
Extract from : « A Widow's Tale and Other Stories » by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

In my opinion it's the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations.
Extract from : « Anne Of Green Gables » by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Let me have the full particulars, and don't try on flummery.'
Extract from : « Caricature and Other Comic Art » by James Parton.

Flummery has ceased to be a popular preacher these twenty years.
Extract from : « Here and There in London » by J. Ewing Ritchie

And a young woman who doesn't go in for poetry, and dreaming, and all that kind of flummery.
Extract from : « Jimbo » by Algernon Blackwood

No flummery, that leaves a man tired and hungry when he leaves the table.
Extract from : « Hildegarde's Harvest » by Laura E. Richards

He had here no moral support for his just contempt of Popish flummery.
Extract from : « Mystery at Geneva » by Rose Macaulay

Their supper always consists of flummery, made of barley-meal.
Extract from : « Lachesis Lapponica » by Carl von Linn

Synonyms for flummery

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