Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.
Communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive.
Slang term for fraud or nonsense; person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest.
1 Of course some in Detroit have an answer to Lovins's visions: humbug .
2 Never let it be said I was bah humbug about Christmas traditions.
3 Nothing can hurt so much in the end as lies and humbug .
4 All this unification of nationalities is the great humbug of the century.
5 Let us say in passing, that the American does not like humbug .
6 No if that infernal humbug will get hot-headed and answer the O.C.
7 We didn't go in for humbug civil service and all that rot.
8 No doubt he considered the whole affair a piece of sentimental humbug .
9 He despised humbug , hypocrisy, and cant:andHe hatedmeannessandcruelty.
10 I may be the greatest humbug on the market, but I'm religious.
11 But mine is a different problem from that white-haired humbug of yours.
12 There was no humbug about the search, you will understand, Mr. Brett.
13 Now remembering all, I was filled with indignation against this little humbug .
14 Confidence with women, you know, is all humbug after a certain point.
15 Out upon him, for a paid agitator, a kill-joy, and a humbug .
16 It isn't a lie-only a piece of conventional humbug which everybody understands.
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