Humbugging

/ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ/

Synonyms for "humbugging" (18 found)

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Closest matches (4)

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Related words (9)

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More general

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deceptiondeceptive qualityethical pretensemisrepresentationmoral pretensenegative traitpretense

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12 entries
bamboozlingcharadedupinghumbugging languagehumbugging rhetorichumbugging tacticmoral posturingpretencepretensescammingshamvirtue signaling

Collocations

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act of humbugginghumbugging argumenthumbugging behaviorhumbugging languagehumbugging methodhumbugging ployhumbugging practicehumbugging rhetorichumbugging schemehumbugging tactichumbugging tacticshumbugging technique

Inflections

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humbuggedhumbuggingshumbugsmore humbuggingmost humbugging

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Extract from a letter to Horace Walpole, written from Florence, in Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, ed. W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George L. Lam (1960), p. 446. […] You will laugh at me, I suppose, when I say I don't understand Tristram Shandy, because it was probably the intention of the author that nobody should. It seems to me humbugging, if I have a right notion of an art of talking or writing that has been invented since I left England.

Source: wiktionary

My Friends, and Dear Countrymen, do not discard, / The Song and advice of a Patriot Bard, / Who wants you to listen to Cambria's praise, / To keep up old Customs, and walk in old ways, / So sung in Humbugging, and Tomfoolery.

Source: wiktionary

Vice Lords call fighting humbugging, and robbing hustling. Humbugging is further subdivided: fighting between rival clubs is gangbanging, fighting between individuals is humbugging, and fighting which results when a group of club members goes out to jump on anyone they can find is wolf packing.

Source: wiktionary

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