humbugging

So long as we were in these latitudes, we had but little rest in our watch on deck at night, for, as the winds were light and variable, and we could not lose a breath, we were all the watch bracing the yards, and taking in and making sail, and "humbugging" with our flying kites.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869

He had thought at first that the prince was "humbugging" him; but on looking at his face he saw that he was absolutely serious, and had no thought of any deception.

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

His blacking was really a superior article, and well worth the price charged for it, but he was "humbugging" the public by this queer way of arresting attention.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

Kister in the goodness of his heart did not give in even then; perhaps, thought he, Avdey is in a bad temper and is 'humbugging' from old habit ... he has not yet found a new language to express new feelings.

The Jew and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

So long as we were in these latitudes, we had but little rest in our watch on deck at night, for, as the winds were light and variable, and we could not lose a breath, we were all the watch bracing the yards, and taking in and making sail, and "humbugging" with our flying kites.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

With all Randal Leslie's profound diplomacy, all his art in talking over, deceiving, and (to borrow Dick Avenel's vernacular phrase) "humbugging" educated men, his eloquence fell flat upon minds invulnerable to appeals, whether to State or to Church, to Reform or to Freedom.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

With all Randal Leslie's profound diplomacy, all his art in talking over, deceiving, and (to borrow Dick Avenel's vernacular phrase) "humbugging" educated men, his eloquence fell flat upon minds invulnerable to appeals, whether to State or to Church, to Reform or to Freedom.

My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

There is none, or little, of the 'humbugging', the violence towards women and children, because the men have SELF-RESPECT.

newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

If this thing had been kept to a VOLUNTARY basis, the Racial Discrimination Act NOT interfered with, I doubt that too many could have objected, other than the mostly men, but not exclusively so, who are 'humbugging' the women who were getting the income un-split.

newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

"humbugging" sort of a place as the rest of Europe; and, indeed, that the whole world was subject to the identical changes of shower, fog, and sunshine.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross