Humbuggery
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 trickery; deception countable, uncountable
"Both see Leviathan more as a photograph than a metaphor — a reality veiled by rhetoric — and thereby claim a position of epistemic privilege, a Realpolitik, a discourse shorn of humbuggery and pretense."
Example
More examples"Both see Leviathan more as a photograph than a metaphor — a reality veiled by rhetoric — and thereby claim a position of epistemic privilege, a Realpolitik, a discourse shorn of humbuggery and pretense."
Etymology
From humbug + -ery.