Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The practice of humbug; false pretense; imposition.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The practice of imposition.
Etymologies
- humbug + -ery (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But, any how, the people are getting up to that kind of humbuggery; and I'm afraid, that, like the Indian's gun, it would cost in the end more than it came to. ”
“It would pollute the voter pool with people who would recognize humbuggery for what it is.”
Making the Wrong Assumption « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
“Spoon-bending was so long ago exposed as a parlor trick that I thought the very term had become a synonym for humbuggery.”
“Even more fascinating is how honest the narcissistic Marjoe is about his personal misgivings, his atheism, and the profit motive behind these Pentecostal meetings, which he headlines with a mix of rock-star bravado and sanctimonious humbuggery.”
“Von Trier's crimes are ones of intellectual humbuggery.”
“And for a Scots Labour MP to opine, as he does, that he does not believe “you can play around with the constitution” is as gross a piece of humbuggery as you could wish for from a party that has been playing fast and very loose with our constitution from the moment it got into power.”
“Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps that was weaselly the most dissembling piece of humbuggery on Melanie's blog to date.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“By now, if you've concluded that I'm blogging a bottom-line bah-humbuggery to it all, you'd be missing my point.”
“There will no longer have to be much casting around for examples of psychological projection or humbuggery now will there?”
“Certainly calls into question his runaway humbuggery Hamburgery?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘humbuggery’.
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 456 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Whimsical Word Waggery
delightfully youthful and energetically inspired words of joy and mirth and play! In order to post on this list, you must know deep down in your soul that you still have un irresisitible affinity f...
madeupical, funfortunate, splendiferous, fantabulous, pollyannary, humbuggery, hullabaloo, flibbertigibbet, pitter-patter, windbaggery, cockamamie, diddly-squat and 45 more...
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fun to say
Tweets
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yarb Or, imperative, hum "buggery". May 12, 2008
whichbe Deception. May 12, 2008