(1) The United Nations is a dim hive of self-interested parties engaged in endless parliamentary mummery , united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal.(2) The traditions of the latter three in divine service were largely those that came to American shores: plain people worshipping plainly who would have no truck with papist mummery .(3) The puerility and sloth of the students, the pure nothingness of the curriculum: it's all sham and mummery , gutless as a haiku poem.(4) that's all it is, mere mummery(5) In the Enquiry he called Catholics ‘devotees of superstition’ and Catholic liturgy ‘ mummeries .’(6) Controversy surrounded the early years of the priest's incumbency due to accusations from local newspapers of increased levels of ‘Popish and Pagan mummeries ’ within St Michael's services.