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.
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