And he met on the road a small little woman, and she came across him and across him again, and then again, as if to be humbugging him.
And some youngsters began to be humbugging him, and humbugging is always bad.
So far from it, that doubtless a very perfect and successful man in the art of humbugging must be educated to his business.
Barnum first humbugging the people with a lemonade-stand worth all told two dollars, and we next see him humbugging the people with the greatest show on earth, worth a million.
Of course they are humbugging the old peer about the other papers, and, as I know, it is devilish easy to humbug the young one.
In the meantime, you bog-trotting oracle, say whether you are humbugging me or not.
Were a syllable of scandal breathed against you, you have the patrons of all those humbugging Societies to defend you.
What good is this humbugging system going to do us?
It's surprising how these humbugging old myths survive in the country, and the further away from Town you get, the more you find of them.
Glad to hear you say so, because according to all the rules of that humbugging old superstition of yours we ought to have come to mortal grief.
Besides," I added, with an extra serious air, "we never allow humbugging here!
One colossal genius in humbugging actually advertised in these words: "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Many persons have such a horror of being taken in, or such an elevated opinion of their own acuteness, that they believe everything to be a sham, and in this way are continually humbugging themselves.
This is only hishumbugging talk; he never believes what he says.
Faith, I'd swap soon enough if you weren't humbugging me.
Don't be humbugging your mother or you'll have no luck," says she.
With a word of encouragement he would have stayed away from church to bear her company, but Sylvia was provokingly obtuse, and he went off looking unutterable reproaches with his "humbugging eyes.
Manus: What call had I to come humbugging and letting on as I did, teasing and tormenting her, and not coming as a King should that is come to ask for a Queen!
We can't go back to church until this humbugging rain have stopped.
When you've seen the festival at Heerut next week you won't want another dose for years--these sort of fellows with their humbugging old fakir will be pouring in till the place is like an ant-heap.
Dan felt a rush of tenderness in his heart at the sound of the kind, humbugging little voice.
I believe this minute that that manoeuvring, humbugging mother of hers is a better woman, a kinder woman, than she is.
I can’t say that he used any epithet, applied to Stevens: he said it was a humbugging concern altogether, or something of that.
He did say something about it; ‘it was a humbugging concern,’ or something to that effect.
That ‘it was a humbugging concern,’ or something to that effect?
The doctor seated himself as he spoke, and there he kept Reddy, who he knew was very fond of a good supper, singing away for the bare life, with only one person for audience, and that one humbugging him.
The fifer, in revenge, declared he was only humbugging the Squire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humbugging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
