Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of humbug; false pretense; imposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practice of imposition.
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- noun dated
trickery ;deception
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, any how, the people are getting up to that kind of humbuggery; and I'm afraid, that, like the Indian's gun, it would cost in the end more than it came to. "
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It would pollute the voter pool with people who would recognize humbuggery for what it is.
Making the Wrong Assumption « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Spoon-bending was so long ago exposed as a parlor trick that I thought the very term had become a synonym for humbuggery.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Even more fascinating is how honest the narcissistic Marjoe is about his personal misgivings, his atheism, and the profit motive behind these Pentecostal meetings, which he headlines with a mix of rock-star bravado and sanctimonious humbuggery.
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Von Trier's crimes are ones of intellectual humbuggery.
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And for a Scots Labour MP to opine, as he does, that he does not believe “you can play around with the constitution” is as gross a piece of humbuggery as you could wish for from a party that has been playing fast and very loose with our constitution from the moment it got into power.
Archive 2007-11-18 2007
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And for a Scots Labour MP to opine, as he does, that he does not believe “you can play around with the constitution” is as gross a piece of humbuggery as you could wish for from a party that has been playing fast and very loose with our constitution from the moment it got into power.
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Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps that was weaselly the most dissembling piece of humbuggery on Melanie's blog to date.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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By now, if you've concluded that I'm blogging a bottom-line bah-humbuggery to it all, you'd be missing my point.
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There will no longer have to be much casting around for examples of psychological projection or humbuggery now will there?
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
whichbe commented on the word humbuggery
Deception.
May 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word humbuggery
Or, imperative, hum "buggery".
May 12, 2008