Mummery in a sentence as a noun

Lego Classic has just arrived in the UK but it seems a half-hearted piece of mummery to me.

If anything, the FBI's recent success in cracking the iphone without even Apple's help should tell us that this is merely more security mummery. A mummer's farce if you will.

Bread, circuses, and other mummery are distractions useful to the powerful as they concoct and enact their schemes. And, of course, the winners of a conflict write the historical account and the myths.

There's a lot of mummery around how the Fed goes about doing it, but that is the structurally correct way for dollars to be created. Calling it forgery or "theft by inflation" or whatever are political talking points.

Mummery definitions

noun

meaningless ceremonies and flattery

See also: flummery