Flummoxery
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An act or practice of flummoxing. uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From flummox + -ery.
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