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humbug
noun
(hum-bug)
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Synonyms:
dupery
,
fraud
,
fraudulence
,
hoax
, put-on,
humbug
noun
(hum-bug)
pretentious or silly talk or writing
Synonyms:
baloney
,
bilgewater
,
boloney
,
bosh
,
drool
,
taradiddle
,
tarradiddle
,
tommyrot
,
tosh
,
twaddle
,
humbug
noun
(hum-bug)
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
Synonyms:
snake oil,
humbug
verb
(hum-bug)
trick or deceive
Words Related to
humbug
!
tosh
,
twaddle
,
baloney
,
tommyrot
,
bosh
,
drool
,
boloney
,
bilgewater
,
taradiddle
,
tarradiddle
,
nonsense
,
deception
,
sham
,
poppycock
,
balderdash
,
bullshit
,
bunkum
,
hokum
,
hogwash
,
scrooge
,
claptrap
,
hooey
,
jolly
,
piffle
,
charlatan
,
cynic
,
idiocy
,
sophistry
,
hypocrisy
,
imposture
,
mendacity
,
humbugger
,
jingoism
,
codswallop
,
killjoy
,
buncombe
,
pedantry
,
fiddlesticks
,
horseshit
,
hypocritic
,
prigs
,
pomposity
,
curmudgeon
,
flapdoodle
,
flummery
,
crapola
,
grandiloquence
,
jolliness
,
sayer
,
phooey
,
flatteries
,
hyperbole
,
jackanapes
,
foolishness
,
obfuscation
,
politically correct
,
grouches
,
popery
,
boastfulness
,
philistinism
,
blarney
,
malarkey
,
doggerel
,
sophism
,
sanctimony
,
wowsers
,
bollocks
,
jingo
,
political correctness
,
moralizing
,
fatuity
,
prevarication
,
falsehood
,
prating
,
poltroon
,
disingenuousness
,
crackpot
,
untruth
,
easter bunny
,
foolery
,
tautology
,
wishful thinking
,
warmongering
,
jabberwocky
,
persiflage
,
blather
,
harrumphing
,
churl
,
antisemite
,
pinko
,
jape
,
folderol
,
drivel
,
crock
,
pontificator
,
forsooth
,
pish
,
birdbrained
,
demagoguery
,
pommy
,
humbug
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