humbugged

• If he was amused at the ease with which fools can be humbugged, he must also have been astounded at the awful villainy of those who, perfect strangers to him, had perjured themselves for the sake of notoriety. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
• The sharp people who were determined 'not to be humbugged, anyhow,' still declared that Commodore Nutt was General Tom Thumb, and that the little fellow whom I was trying to pass off as Tom Thumb, was no more like the General than he was like the man in the moon. —  Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
• The Battle: Blucher had occupied Ligny and was awaiting Wellington only to be told that the duke was himself out of position (he had been "humbugged" to quote Wellesley). —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
• There is nothing of which people have a greater horror than of being humbugged, if they know it; so, for the most part, the Wimbledonians turned a deaf ear and cold shoulder on the washerwoman's sorrowful supplications for charity. —  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
• [26] To what baseness will not the struggle for political ascendency urge us Footnote 26: I believe this infamous law, however, has been repealed In the course of the evening, Mr the Irish gentleman, gravely introduced me to a Sir James adding, with perfect gravity, "a gentleman whose father humbugged the Pope--humbugged infallibility." —  Recollections of Europe

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