humbuggery

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That chaperone business is all humbuggery--unless an old uncle like me can be a chaperone.

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  • I have a suspicion that Wilde's blue plaque is pretty safe - but if not the concerned citizens of Worthing will have recoiled from buggery into pure civic humbuggery. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • His characters revel in artificiality, innuendo and humbuggery, even buggery as well, to conceal their dark desires. —  Evening Standard - Home
  • The followers, he writes are cajoled into devotion by the leader's pretended concern or admiration for them or for some cause in which they believe, by a pretense of virtue; it is mostly humbuggery .... —  LewRockwell.com Blog
  • We have two more gems of heinous humbuggery to discuss. —  At-Largely
  • Err, that's called a deus ex machina and is generally considered one of the worst storytelling faults, the quackiest canard, if you will, in the arsenal of terrible narrative humbuggery. —  Boing Boing
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