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Example sentences for "humbug"

Lexicographically close words:
humbleth; humblie; humbling; humbly; humblye; humbugged; humbugging; humbugs; humdrum; humeral
  1. In his sledge-hammer blows against humbug and wickedness, intellectual affectation, and moral baseness, he is the Blacksmith all over.

  2. The next morning, a neighbor of mine, strong in the faith of this humbug philosophy, came into my house just as we had finished our morning meal.

  3. The mind cure, falsely so called, is perhaps, the most subtile humbug of the day.

  4. I think you're an awful humbug of a woman!

  5. But a certain amount of humbug is decent and necessary!

  6. If you let a humbug like that impose upon you, Mac, I'll never own you for my friend.

  7. Mrs. Haverstock is a great woman for discussions, but I will say this for her, she doesn't humbug herself over them.

  8. My Lord gave in, after a humbug show of resistance, and whiskey-punch was in a few minutes the order of the night.

  9. It's not Lanty Lawler you can humbug that way.

  10. You'll humbug him out of his shirt, and faix it's the easiest way to get it after all.

  11. She shivered, but not with her usual impatience of the humbug of it.

  12. At least he is not a sheer humbug like mine; he can at least sing.

  13. Then the humbug which is always represented by mediocre opinion with its foul spittle, this humbug came to replace the menace of raised fists.

  14. I am of the opinion—and always have been—that if Lord Lucan had continued his humbug for ten minutes longer, the Duke of Cambridge would have attacked the retreating Russians on the Causeway heights.

  15. We all know electioneering is humbug, and the biggest humbug wins.

  16. I fear a good deal of humbug goes on when there is much oratory, and that a man who gets into a habit of public speaking later on becomes a humbug himself.

  17. The veriest humbug that ever was planned Is this same bald-head from No-man's-land.

  18. Perhaps you will; the principal isn't hard with the boys when they come right square up to the mark; but you can't humbug him.

  19. Because you want to humbug the principal; and me, too--but that's no account.

  20. Dic lifted her head, and Billy administered the deadly potion, while the humbug lover stood by, confidently expecting dire results, but too much subdued by the situation to interpose an objection.

  21. She was one of the many millions who always accept the current humbug in whatever form he comes.

  22. The Ballantyne Humbug Handled by the author of the Life of Sir Walter Scott.

  23. He exposed shams and humbug regardless of consequences.

  24. Didn't I tell you they warn't no better than rank pisin, and that no rale lady would ever think of stuffing herself with such humbug trash?

  25. She's none of your stuck up, finefied, humbug critters, but a rale ginuine lady, and no mistake.

  26. I wonder whether old Seneca was indeed such a humbug as people now say he was: he is really a fine writer.

  27. It is all humbug about Maria,' said Juliana.

  28. He has too much sense not to take a good offer,' said Mervyn, 'otherwise, it is all humbug his pretending to care for you.

  29. Godolphin, I daresay, has as little humbug about him as most parliamentarians; we stick to the practical fairly well.

  30. There is a considerable degree of superstition among the people, and they believe in all sorts of signs and omens, but the priests do not attempt to humbug them with bogus miracles or wonder-working images.

  31. The captain was an ungodly man, and intimated that the Archbishop was attempting to humbug him.

  32. Whatever he tells us may be relied upon; for, depend upon 't, no lady can humbug him.

  33. There is NO "medium" in Spirit Rapping; for, in our opinion, it is all humbug from beginning to end.

  34. But no real red-blooded citizen is quite ready for a humbug that models himself not on Sir Charles Grandison but on Sir Roger de Coverly.

  35. You're too big a humbug to get any from me, Mr. Stuart.

  36. Heaven is my witness, Kate, if you don't end this humbug I will, and in my own way.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humbug" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurdity; acting; affectation; appearance; babble; balderdash; balls; bamboozle; beguile; betray; bitch; blah; bluff; bombast; bosh; bull; bunk; bunkum; cajole; cant; charlatan; cheat; circumvent; claptrap; color; coloring; conjure; counterfeit; cozen; crap; deceit; deceive; deception; defraud; delude; delusion; diddle; disguise; dissemblance; drivel; dupe; facade; face; fake; falsity; feint; flannel; flummery; fool; forestall; fraud; front; fudge; fustian; gabble; gibber; gibberish; gilt; gimmick; gloss; gull; hoax; hoodwink; humbug; hypocrisy; hypocrite; impersonator; impostor; imposture; jabber; jargon; juggle; malingerer; masquerade; mislead; mock; moonshine; mountebank; mystify; nonsense; ostentation; outreach; outwit; overreach; palaver; phoney; phony; pigeon; pose; poser; posing; posture; prate; prattle; pretence; pretender; pretense; pretension; pretext; quack; rant; representation; ride; rigmarole; ringer; rodomontade; rubbish; seeming; semblance; sham; show; simulacrum; simulation; snow; speciousness; spoof; stuff; swindle; trash; trick; trumpery; twaddle; varnish