Crossword-Solution: MUMMERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mummery | n. | Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. |
| Mummery | n. | Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “MUMMERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pretentious ceremony | 1 answer |
| puppetry | 1 answer |
| Buffoonery | 17 answers |
| foolery | 45 answers |
| Exhibition | 79 answers |
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Sentences with MUMMERY (5)
Your highness must break short this present mummery.” “The yeomen and commons,” said De Bracy, “must not be dismissed discontented, for lack of their share in the sports.” “The day,” said Waldemar, “is not yet very far spent—let the archers shoot a few rounds at the target, and the prize be adjudged.
One or two other boys were tried, but none could “see truth”; they all made sadly “bad shots.” Notwithstanding the failure of these experiments, I wished to see what sort of mummery my magician would practise if I called upon him to show me some performances of a higher order than those which had been attempted.
Yet, what the devil! you, the time-battered vagabond, decline happiness and a kingdom to boot because of yesterday's mummery in the cathedral! because of a mere promise given! Yes, I have my spies in every rat-hole.
For this last makes true, living children of God, the other only makes worse idolatry and the most mischievous hypocrites on earth, who with their apparent righteousness lead unnumbered people into their way, and yet allow them to be without faith, so that they are miserably misled, and are caught in the pitiable babbling and mummery.
Now what could have induced Scott to write novels tending to make people Papists and Jacobites, and in love with arbitrary power? Did he think that Christianity was a gaudy mummery? He did not, he could not, for he had read the Bible; yet was he fond of gaudy mummeries, fond of talking about them.
Quotes with MUMMERY (1)
Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered causality, is closely connected with, and structured by, the categories of the subconscious, the inner impulses of man's nature. At first glance the scope of fantastic literature, free as it is from the restrictions of natural law, appears to be unli…
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Appears in: Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1995–2015).