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flummery
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈflʌm.ər.i/ us /ˈflʌm.ɚ.i/
disapproving
praise or other polite speech or behaviour that is not sincere and does not really mean anything: 空洞的恭维话
These letters are full of the most ornate diplomatic flummery.这些信件充满了华丽的恭维之词。
a sweet soft food popular in the past, made with milk or cream, sugar and other ingredients such as oats (= a type of grain), gelatine (= a substance used to make jelly), eggs, or fruit小麦（或燕麦）粥（旧时的一种常见食物）
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
hagiographic
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous
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