单词 | humbuggery |
释义 | humbug1 of 2noun hum·bug ˈhəm-ˌbəg 1 a : something designed to deceive and mislead Their claims are humbug. b : a willfully false, deceptive, or insincere person He's just an old humbug. denounced as humbugs the playwrights who magnify the difficulties of their craft Times Literary Supplement 2 : an attitude or spirit of pretense and deception in all his humbug, in all his malice and hollowness Mary Lindsay 3 : nonsense, drivel academic humbug 4 British : a hard usually peppermint-flavored candy humbuggery ˈhəm-ˌbə-g(ə-)rē noun humbug 2 of 2verb humbugged; humbugging transitive verb : deceive, hoax humbugged by their doctors G. B. Shaw intransitive verb : to engage in a hoax or deception humbuggery nounas in nonsense language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense a lot of humbuggery about a mean old witch that lives in the woods Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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