Thesaurus / humbug
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In the press, there were months of ridicule, with one politician describing it as “one of the greatest humbugs, frauds, and absurdities ever known.”
THE METAVERSE IS A NEW WORD FOR AN OLD IDEAGENEVIEVE BELLFEBRUARY 8, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWOnly a humbug would complain about this “Alice in Wonderland” like befuddlement.
‘LIAR’S DICTIONARY’ A FAB, QUEER TALE FOR LOVERS OF LANGUAGEKATHI WOLFEJANUARY 29, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEWe all bow to the seor, and I wonder if he is really the private secretary, or a private humbug, waiting around to ensnare us.
GARDENS OF THE CARIBBEES, V. 1/2IDA MAY HILL STARRDid the manufacturers of Alleotone feel downcast over the exposure of their humbug?
THE PROPAGANDA FOR REFORM IN PROPRIETARY MEDICINES, VOL. 1 OF 2VARIOUSIn brief, Dowds scientific method is nothing more than unscientific humbug.
THE PROPAGANDA FOR REFORM IN PROPRIETARY MEDICINES, VOL. 1 OF 2VARIOUSYou will find him in these pages, just the same humbug Wizard as before.
DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZL. FRANK BAUM"The Wizard of Oz has always been a humbug," agreed Dorothy.
DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZL. FRANK BAUM"He's only a humbug Wizard, though," said Dorothy, smiling at him.
DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZL. FRANK BAUMThese duels, by the by, are pieces of the most intense humbug that can be imagined.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE - VOLUME 55, NO. 343, MAY 1844VARIOUSYou can't cut those clouds into slices of cheese as you can them of that humbug of a Cloud Lowrain.
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. 2, NO. 2, AUGUST, 1862VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO HUMBUG
- artifice
- blind
- cheat
- chicanery
- crocodile tears
- deception
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- duplicity
- fake
- feint
- flimflam
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- fraudulence
- hoax
- humbug
- imposture
- misrepresentation
- pretense
- ruse
- sell
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- sham
- shift
- smoke and mirrors
- snow job
- soft soap
- spoof
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- sweet-talk
- swindle
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- whitewash
- wile
- bamboozle
- be dishonest
- beat
- beat out of
- beguile
- betray
- bilk
- buffalo
- burn
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- circumvent
- clip
- con
- cozen
- cross up
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- disappoint
- double-cross
- dupe
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- entrap
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- falsify
- fleece
- fool
- gouge
- gull
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- hook
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- impose upon
- lead on
- mislead
- outwit
- play joke on
- pull fast one
- put on
- put up a smokescreen
- rob
- scam
- screw
- sell
- skin
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- swindle
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- take for ride
- take in
- take to cleaners
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- skins
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- tricks
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- abracadabra
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- chant
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- conjuring
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- gibberish
- gobbledegook
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- incantation
- jargon
- juggling
- legerdemain
- magic
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- monkey business
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- mystification
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- occultism
- open sesame
- rigmarole
- sleight of hand
- smoke and mirrors
- spell
- swindle
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- actor
- attitudinizer
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- bigot
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- casuist
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- cheat
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- dissembler
- dissimulator
- fake
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- four-flusher
- fraud
- humbug
- impostor
- informer
- lip server
- malingerer
- masquerader
- mountebank
- pharisee
- phony
- poser
- pretender
- quack
- smoothie
- sophist
- swindler
- trickster
- two-face
- two-timer
- wolf in sheep's clothing
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