Thesaurus / humbugging
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synonyms for humbugging
- delude
- pretend
- affect
- beguile
- betray
- bunco
- con
- counterfeit
- defraud
- fake
- feign
- fool
- humbug
- jive
- juggle
- lie
- mislead
- sham
- shuck
- simulate
- snow
- trick
- double-cross
- fake out
- illude
- psych out
- put on
- take in
- bamboozle
- bilk
- dupe
- hoodwink
- swindle
- wheedle
- cajole
- cheat
- chicane
- coax
- flimflam
- fool
- hoax
- hornswoggle
- humbug
- inveigle
- mislead
- rook
- sweet-talk
- trick
- double-cross
- rip off
- be dishonest
- betray
- cheat
- circumvent
- defraud
- delude
- disappoint
- dupe
- entrap
- falsify
- fool
- hoodwink
- mislead
- swindle
- trick
- victimize
- bamboozle
- beat
- beguile
- bilk
- buffalo
- burn
- clip
- con
- cozen
- ensnare
- fake
- fleece
- gouge
- gull
- hoax
- hook
- humbug
- outwit
- rob
- scam
- screw
- sell
- skin
- beat out of
- cross up
- double-cross
- impose upon
- lead on
- play joke on
- pull fast one
- put on
- put up a smokescreen
- suck in
- take advantage of
- take for
- take for ride
- take in
- take to cleaners
- beguile
- betray
- bluff
- cheat
- con
- cross
- deceive
- defraud
- double-deal
- dupe
- four-flush
- hoodwink
- humbug
- illude
- juggle
- mislead
- scam
- sell
- sell down the river
- sell out
- split
- stab in the back
- swindle
- take in
- trick
- two-time
antonyms for humbugging
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How to use humbugging in a sentence
Dan felt a rush of tenderness in his heart at the sound of the kind, humbugging little voice.
APRIL HOPESWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSWho worrit us out of our lives with Reform, and such humbugging fads!
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 103, NOVEMBER 12, 1892VARIOUS"Don't be humbugging your mother or you'll have no luck," says she.
LEGENDS OF SAINTS & SINNERSDOUGLAS HYDEYour humbugging registration will never do against a new reign.
SYBILBENJAMIN DISRAELIFor three months you have been humbugging in order to hide that from me.
THE WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT, VOL. 6GUY DE MAUPASSANTThis gratuitous, wicked, humbugging terrifier helped to cause another defeat.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILEJOHN HANNING SPEKEThere were people who believed "there was a humbugging fellow at both ends," and that the scheme couldn't be made to work.
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORKAMANDA MILLIE DOUGLASMerchant stopped to swab the thick perspiration from his face, laughed at Terry's humbugging pose, and desisted.
TERRYCHARLES GOFF THOMSONIt was no use humbugging ourselves into thinking we knew where it was, when no one could possibly know.
SCAMPING TRICKS AND ODD KNOWLEDGEJOHN NEWMANI took care not to open my eyes for a good bit, but I couldn't carry on humbugging that I was still asleep for very long.
PETERKINMARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH