HUMBUG


Meaning of HUMBUG in English

n. 25B6; noun

that is sheer humbug : HYPOCRISY, hypocritical talk, sanctimoniousness, posturing, cant, empty talk; insincerity, dishonesty, falseness, deceit, deception, fraud.

you see what a humbug I am? : HYPOCRITE, fraud, fake, plaster saint; charlatan, cheat, deceiver, dissembler; informal phoney; poetic/literary whited sepulchre.

25B6; verb Dave is easily humbugged : DECEIVE, trick, delude, mislead, fool, hoodwink, dupe, take in, beguile, bamboozle, gull; informal con, kid, have on, put one over on someone.

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