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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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?
whichbe commented on the word humbuggery
Deception.
May 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word humbuggery
Or, imperative, hum "buggery".
May 12, 2008