"flummoxery" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From flummox + -ery. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|flummox|ery}} flummox + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} flummoxery (uncountable)
  1. An act or practice of flummoxing. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-flummoxery-en-noun-FX~EV9pl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "1987, Namibia: A Direct United Nations Responsibility:",
          "text": "Most powers would be diffused among under-financed and ill-equipped 'ethnic' governments, with only the whites able to profit and prosper, much as they always have. A certain price would have to be paid for such flummoxery, of course: prestigious and high-paying offices for complaisant black politicians and changes in the apartheid laws, of which they, as well as their followers and constituents, were frequently victims. The process began in 1975.",
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          "ref": "1989, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia:",
          "text": "... its bosom, or accompanied by ironic comment about the flummoxery by which medical scientists deceived the rest of us into taking them seriously.",
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          "ref": "2012, John C. Wright, The Hermetic Millennia, →ISBN, page 270:",
          "text": "“Lepers and scabs! You think I am dithering you? Me? Look what is talking! Shut your yap and open your ears, yammermouth! Look around you! We're prisoners. The Blue Men are in charge, and they plan to kill us as soon as they get what they want. So smarten up and eyes front, Kine, if you want to see the end of the week. Whatever is happening is about to happen fast. You want to sober up, and talk without so much vinous crapulent goldbricking flummoxery?” The man's face fell.",
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