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n. Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.

n. A person who claims to be other than what he or she is; an impostor.

n. Nonsense; rubbish.

n. Pretense; deception.

interjection. Used to express disbelief or disgust.

v. To deceive or trick.

verb-intransitive. To practice deception or trickery.

n. A hoax, prank or jest

n. A fraud or sham

n. A fraudster or cheat

n. A type of chewy sweet (candy)

interjection. nonsense!

v. To play a trick on.

v. To cheat, swindle.

n. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

n. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

n. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.

v. To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

n. A trick; an imposition, especially an imposition perpetrated under fair and honorable pretenses; a hoax.

n. A spirit of deception or imposition; falseness; hollowness; pretense; sham: as, there is a great deal of humbug about him.

n. An impostor; a cheat; a deceitful fellow; a person given to cajolery, flattery, or specious stories.

n. A form of nippers for grasping the cartilage of the nose in refractory cattle.

n. A kind of candy. See the extract.

To deceive by a false pretense; impose upon; cajole; hoax.

To practise deceit or trickery.

n. pretentious or silly talk or writing

n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

n. communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

v. trick or deceive

"Mrs Harold Smith had commenced with a mind fixed upon avoiding what she called humbug; but this sort of humbug had become so prominent"

humbugged    humbugging    humbugs   

hokum    nonsense    nonsensicality    meaninglessness    bunk    deception    misrepresentation    deceit    deceive    cozen   

humbugged    humbugging   

humbugged    humbugging    humbuggery    humbugger   

hoax    cajolery    trickishness    impostor    deceive    impose    cajole    deception    deceiver   

imposture    hypocrite    hypocrisy    impostor    deceit    quackery    nonsense    swindler    liar    snob