Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
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Examples for "humbug"
Examples for "humbug"
1Of course some in Detroit have an answer to Lovins's visions: humbug.
2Never let it be said I was bah humbug about Christmas traditions.
3Nothing can hurt so much in the end as lies and humbug.
4All this unification of nationalities is the great humbug of the century.
5Let us say in passing, that the American does not like humbug.
1For nearly 20 years, Shemar Moore has been making the ladies drool.
2A long, glistening thread of drool detached itself and fell onto me.
3Water began to drool through the holes and over the opened-up skin.
4They are serious seizures, but he doesn't shake and drool or convulse.
5But I made it safely, without collapsing into a puddle of drool.
1I wish you'd drop that sort of sentimental bosh, Skipper; especially now.
2Oh, he wanted to come, but I put the kye-bosh on that.
3What you call bosh is the only thing men dare die for.
4He must surely be aware that much he said was superstitious bosh.
5If my reader finds this bosh and abracadabra, all right for him.
1Not that I'm buyin' this technical twaddle for one minute, you understand.
2Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical twaddle?
3They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather.
4We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.
5The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
1Yet some critics in the health care profession say that's all baloney.
2Other scientists said baloney-thatpowerful new cooling methods would eventually condense them.
3He said: We want no more stunts or PR baloney from Boris.
4Award-winning science fiction author Brian Aldiss has another term for it: baloney.
5That was a lot of baloney you had in the paper .
1All I tried to do was to make her forget the tommyrot.
2I think Humphrey's a fakir, and all this sort of thing tommyrot.
3And we all said it was tommyrot, and she was to tell us.
4Seems to me it's as good as the tommyrot you write.
5Can you imagine our minds embracing each other, thrilling at the contact,-oh ,it'stommyrot.
1He turned his head and looked at the hatchet in the boat's bilgewater.
2The hatchet still lay in the bloody bilgewater.
3At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an "aqueous matter" resembling bilgewater.
4Tess suddenly found herself pinned to the ceiling of her boat with bilgewater surging around her head.
5The tracks led off the beaten track, down the path not taken, through a sleepy hollow, over a tarn of brackish bilgewater.
1I hesitated; then resolved on a taradiddle,-inMarjorie's interest.
2You'll have to-Another little taradiddle in his chest.
3His heart did a jagged taradiddle and he held his breath... but then it settled again.
4Considering that it was about six-thirty, I wanted to ask who was telling a taradiddle now; but I resisted the temptation, and replied-
5Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told taradiddles.
1Nobody will care about you if you are a phony boloney.
2I speared the tiny ball of boloney a Specimen to examine.
4Such is not appearing to happen so I will go eat a boloney & cheese sandwich with a glass of ice tea with it.
5"You've got a piece of boloney stuck in your teeth Ray." While I poked around my Canines he spoke to me very sincere.
1Well;- Itoldhim a tarradiddle of course.
2It will be for you, gentlemen, to decide where there is any grain of truth in all this tarradiddle.
3I've no right to come here after all the tarradiddles I told you.
4'There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?'
5"So it seems you can't tell a tarradiddle for me?"
1Don't believe that tosh about Lansdowne Road being dead in the water.
2Say how grieved you are and all the rest of the tosh.
3Finish by asking him does he get paid for this tosh.
4I mean, roping you in to listen to this frightful tosh!
5What if this was sentimental tosh, the cruelest lie of all?
6I have come here to talk about new tactics, and I get this tosh.
7Yet for some odd reason I still wanted to road-test this tosh for myself.
8Is it repertory theatre tosh, or really straight paying stuff?
9William, you really are talking the most appalling tosh.
10A much more rewarding task than watching this tosh.
11To hell with Christmas charity and all that tosh.
12Now, why do people in Fleet-street talk such tosh?
13We now know the thing to be total tosh.
14Unreadable tosh is another way of putting it.
15There's a thin line between tripe and tosh.
16I'm to learn to be a landowner and squire and all that sort of tosh instead.