Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mumbo-jumbo
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ legal mumbo-jumbo
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty.
▪ His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.
▪ Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.
▪ Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
▪ You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.
Wiktionary
mumbo-jumbo
n. (alternative spelling of mumbo jumbo English)
Usage examples of "mumbo-jumbo".
They are taking the scientific breakthrough of the century, perhaps for thousands of years, and turning it into a mumbo-jumbo circus.
When a scientific genius becomes involved in the mystical mumbo-jumbo, the result is likely to be a lunatic whose quest for eternal life massacres everything in sight, but such poor souls wouldn't willingly harm a fly.