Mummery
Antonyms of MUMMERY
- honor, sense, impropriety, gloom, standard, truth, honesty, frankness, unsuitableness, flattery, truthfulness, work, informality, tragedy, wrong, praise, reality, openness, seriousness, fact, vocation, uprightness.
Synonyms of MUMMERY
- caper, cant, costume ball, ha-ha, rib, oiliness, shaggy-dog story, hokum, ceremoniousness, overacting, cloak, masquerade, conjuring, affectation, function, mystification, masque, service, jokes, magic word, humor, Buffooneries, unctuousness, playing, honors, game, frolic, flummery, acting, whimsy, one-liner, quip, ham, hypocrisy, Mardi Gras, conventionalism, costume, hoodwinking, mask, liturgy, representation, chant, poppycock, trick, propriety, formality, mime, ceremony, imposture, circus, visor, snuffle, stage business, smokescreen, trickery, rigmarole, convocation, prank, mischief, piousness, laugh, derision, religious ceremony, formalisms, sanctimony, rite, politesse, PUNS, conventionalisms, revel, lark, bon mot, business, sally, swindle, vagary, pleasantry, scorn, tokenism, bunk, borrowed plumes, rite of passage, hocus-pocus, play, rite de passage, show, screen, saw, inaugural, cheating, dominos, yarn, slapstick, abracadabra, antic, Occultism, carnival, playacting, sanctimoniousness, gag, escapade, impersonation, subterfuge, incognito, dissimulation, horseplay, domino, Mummeries, open sesame, magic, jargon, color, gibberish, masked ball, veil, false face, heyday, Vizard, put-on, patter, Exercises, punctiliousness, jesting, mirth, masking, snuffling, jollity, Disguisement, mockery, performance, disguise, cover up, payoff, smoke screen, chicanery, baccalaureate service, incantation, exercise, performing, religiosity, jocoseness, merriment, inauguration, shenanigan, pretense, guise, pun, stage directions, juggling, spree, HAHA, Mouthing, insincerity, laughter, sport, monkey business, nonsense, teasing, mimesis, Mimicking, jollification, clowning, repartee, false colors, wit, chestnuts, smoke and mirrors, snow job, charm, dumb show, pantomime, Jovialness, formal, drollery, magic words, commencement, ritual, front, badinage, deception, puppetry, fun, protective coloration, observance, monkeyshine, flimflam, cover-up, personation, piety, personations, humbug, facade, gambol, hypocriticalness, Hocuspocus, mumbo jumbo, raillery, pietism, spell, stunt, unction, Kidding, pecksniffery, celebration, jest, decorum, falseness, Religionism, deceiver, graduation, farce, trifling, solemnization, nonsensicality, witticism, meaninglessness, characterization, wisecrack, Pharisaicalness, caprice, initiation, parody, cover, false front, burlesque, solemn mockery, practical joke, gobbledegook, miming, camouflage, delusion, snivel, chestnut, Boutade, mummery, joviality, buffoonery, sleight of hand, solemnity, jocosity, pantomiming, artifice, amusement, false piety, joke, Hocus, portrayal, jollifications, legerdemain, Pharisaism, ceremonial, Self-righteousness, lip service, mouth honor, p's and q's, hoke, hoax, payof, office, projection, quirk, mimicry, festivity, dominoes, banter, pose, deceit, correctness, formalism, epigram, fraud, tomfoolery, coverup, jape.
Examples of usage:
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Stuart, impolitic for once, disdained to respond, and, grimly silent, eyed him with a sort of stoical defiance that struck the Indian's mummery dumb. "The Story of Old Fort Loudon" by Charles Egbert Craddock
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These latter had, each of them, some mummery peculiar to himself. "The History of the Caliph Vathek" by William Beckford
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The old earl with the hard name gives a breakfast, or feast, or some such mummery. "Paul Clifford, Complete" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
