humbug in English

noun
1
deceptive or false talk or behavior.
his comments are sheer humbug
2
a hard candy, especially one flavored with peppermint.
The best buys include coffee beans, chocolate, mint humbugs and, of course, clotted cream shortbread.
verb
1
deceive; trick.
to humbug his humble neighbors was not difficult

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "humbug" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "humbug", or refer to the context using the word "humbug" in the English Dictionary.

1. Humbug.

2. Well, I say... " Bah Humbug. "

3. Bushwa, Bushwah: Etymology bushwa: der Humbug

4. 5 It was all so much humbug.

5. 6 Ishmael concludes the stranger is a humbug.

6. 15 Britain's laws on homosexuality are hypocritical humbug.

7. 2 to humbug a person into doing sth.

8. This is all humbug and good humor, of course.

9. 13 I am going to expose all this humbug.

10. 7 I am tired of being such a humbug.

11. " Humbug ! " in response to his nephew 's " Merry Christmas ! "

12. In that way one is sure of accepting no humbug.

13. 11 He was a champion against humbug in all its forms.

14. 8 Barnum's original circus was little more than humbug and hype.

15. The wilder the accusations the easier it is to say humbug.

16. 16 Trying to hit a humbug was a waste of effort.

17. There was all the usual humbug and obligatory compliments from ministers.

18. 18 In that way one is sure of accepting no humbug.

19. Blague (countable and uncountable, plural Blagues) mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug; Related terms

20. 22 The wilder the accusations the easier it is to say humbug.

21. 3 There was all the usual humbug and obligatory compliments from ministers.

22. Another word for Cant: hypocrisy, pretence, lip service, humbug, insincerity Collins English Thesaurus

23. 17 Life is all moon shine, a monstrous humbug, a grand suck - in.

24. 1 Yon can only humbug those who are not aware of your tricks.

25. 10 synonyms for Boloney: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle

26. 19 It is a patchwork of well-tested rules, long-forgotten power struggles, and reactionary humbug.

27. Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

28. Synonyms for Beguiler include impostor, fake, charlatan, fraud, cheater, swindler, cheat, fraudster, hoaxer and humbug

29. It is a patchwork of well-tested rules, long-forgotten power struggles, and reactionary humbug.

30. 9 What an awful humbug you must think me for putting on such a show of affection!

31. 25 But I am not writing to flatter parental egotism, to echo cant , or prop up humbug.

32. 12 All this talk of love and compassion is humbug when people are hungry and homeless.

33. 4 Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

34. His companions are the trusty watchdog Tock, his body a lively alarm clock, and the Braggartly Humbug

35. And while a teenager has the foresight of a flea, her powers of humbug-detection are finely honed.

36. 77 synonyms for Cant: hypocrisy, pretence, lip service, humbug, insincerity, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, pious platitudes, affected piety, sham holiness

37. 24 The book is dominated by three tremendous figures: Mahatma Gandhi, part saint, part humbug, and unrelated to Indira.

38. 23 If he regards the inspectorate's independence and integrity as humbug, he is not fit to serve as Minister of State.

39. 20 Compassionate capitalists know that all this talk of love is humbug and poppycock when people are hungry, homeless, and unhappy.

40. 10 He destroys all the humbug of the talk of equality-from domestic to workplace,(www.Sentencedict.com) from old economy to new technology.

41. The answer, it turns out, has something to do with excess humbug production and a decline in the exchange rate between bluster and Bombast

42. Of beggars; hypocrisy, sham, pretense, humbug Not to be confused with: can't – contraction of cannot reCant – withdraw or disavow; revoke, rescind, deny: He reCanted his

43. That the horrible bores and Buttinskies of the Left would go off into their lairs and mutter bah humbug as they get drunk on cheap Chardonnay

44. Bamboozle definition, to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They Bamboozled us into joining the club

45. 21 Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. Desmond Tutu 

46. Chicanery - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) wile, shenanigan, trickery, chicane, guile dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud, fraudulence - something intended to …

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48. Anacreontics of George Ogle and Matthew Pilkington, among others, the con - temporary cultural milieu of Dublin and London glee clubs, bodies such as the Hibernian Catch Club, the Beefsteak Club, the Humbug Club and the tellingly named Anacreontic Society, …

49. An American-English alteration of bologna (sausage), Boloney, or baloney, denotes a large smoked sausage made of seasoned mixed meats, from the name of Bologna, a city in northern Italy, where these sausages were first made.Figuratively, Boloney, baloney, means humbug and nonsense—cf

50. Hypernyms ("Chicanery" is a kind of): deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Chicanery"): dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an