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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All this talk of love and compassion is humbug when people are hungry and homeless.
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Barnum's original circus was little more than humbug and hype.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Compassionate capitalists know that all this talk of love is humbug and poppycock when people are hungry, homeless, and unhappy.
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He was a champion against humbug in all its forms.
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I am tired of being such a humbug .
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Ishmael concludes the stranger is a humbug .
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It was all so much humbug .
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The book is dominated by three tremendous figures: Mahatma Gandhi, part saint, part humbug , and unrelated to Indira.
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What an awful humbug you must think me for putting on such a show of affection!