humbug

• The pillorying of a humbug is so laudable an object that the reader will excuse the digression, which, moreover, may show what miserable instruments a poor biographer has sometimes to make use of. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
• The story looks very much like a humbug, but it was told with all seriousness by a respectable looking man. —  Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
• The derivation of humbug from the Irish uim boig ` false coin 'would provide a perfect partner, but it is, alas, groundless. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
• Horty finished the transaction with a kid who looked no older than twelve, slapped him five, headed west. —  Deal Breaker
• But all that last is mere humbug--humbug, too, of the lowest and most foolish order--I never hear a man droning about the cruelty of field sports, but I set him down, on the spot, either as a hypocrite or a fool, and probably a glorious union of the two. —  Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago

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