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Synonyms for humbug
ˈhʌmˌbʌghum·bug
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Princeton's WordNet
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddlenoun
pretentious or silly talk or writing
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drool, fraud, drivel, bosh, slobber, tale, dribble, tommyrot, boloney, hoax, put-on, snake oil, taradiddle, baloney, bilgewater, story, fib, tarradiddle, tosh, dupery, twaddle, fraudulencehumbug, snake oilnoun
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
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drool, fraud, bosh, fraudulence, tommyrot, boloney, hoax, put-on, taradiddle, baloney, bilgewater, tarradiddle, snake oil, tosh, dupery, twaddlefraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-onverb
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
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pasquinade, put-on, tarradiddle, duplicity, drool, twaddle, bilgewater, caper, burlesque, fraud, parody, baloney, takeoff, joke, mockery, tommyrot, pretender, charade, fake, faker, impostor, role player, hoax, sham, fraudulence, dupery, pseud, trick, pseudo, antic, lampoon, shammer, snake oil, travesty, sendup, tosh, boloney, deceit, taradiddle, spoof, imposter, bosh, prankhumbugverb
trick or deceive
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humbugnoun
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[Colloquial.] imposition, imposture, fetch, deception, fraud, trick, cheat, gammon, dodge, gouge, blind, feint, chousehumbugnoun
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charlatanry, charlatanism, quackery, mummery, cant, hypocrisyhumbugnoun
humbugverb
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[Colloquial.] deceive, cheat, cozen, swindle, trick, hoax, befool, diddle, chouse, impose upon
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#563 | story | |
#4480 | fraud | |
#6089 | tale | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6675 | joke | |
#7167 | trick | |
#12811 | pseudo | |
#18520 | parody | |
#20014 | sham | |
#22497 | hoax | |
#27783 | spoof | |
#29414 | prank | |
#30154 | deceit | |
#33962 | takeoff | |
#37819 | drool | |
#40207 | caper | |
#40443 | mockery | |
#43040 | drivel | |
#43323 | fib | |
#44008 | lampoon | |
#46106 | tosh | |
#47210 | burlesque | |
#47257 | charade | |
#49733 | bosh | |
#50882 | humbug | |
#50992 | dribble | |
#55561 | pretender | |
#56153 | travesty | |
#69173 | duplicity | |
#69823 | imposter | |
#74774 | baloney | |
#78721 | impostor | |
#79626 | antic | |
#116761 | twaddle | |
#130303 | faker | |
#133752 | pseud | |
#158711 | slobber | |
#323539 | fraudulence |
How to use humbug in a sentence?
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
Becket Executive Director Montse Alvarado:
A hearty bah-humbug toast to university officials who make Christian and Jewish students feel like second class citizens at a time that should be full of brotherly love and giving.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916):
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Vox populi, vox humbug.
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