mummery
the performance of mummers.
any performance, ceremony, etc., regarded as absurd, false, or ostentatious.
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How to use mummery in a sentence
At the domino mask they fetched I hesitated, for anything like mummery of this sort was always repugnant to me.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughWhen next he saw her, she would have forgotten her priests and their mummery; she would think only of him and live only for him.
Plashers Mead | Compton MackenzieIndeed, no religious rites exist among them, unless the unmeaning mummery of the medicine tent can be looked upon as such.
Hudson Bay | R.M. BallantyneHeyward possessed some knowledge of the mummery practised among the Indians, in the cases of such supposed visitations.
The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore CooperAnd smile not either—lest I spoil the symmetry of that face for your monkish mummery and processions.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
British Dictionary definitions for mummery
/ (ˈmʌmərɪ) /
a performance by mummers
hypocritical or ostentatious ceremony
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