humbugnoun
uk/ˈhʌm.bʌɡ/us/ˈhʌm.bʌɡ/humbug noun (DISHONESTY)
[ U ] dishonest talk, writing, or behaviour that is intended to deceive people:
the usual political humbug
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- hypocrisy
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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humbug noun (SWEET)
[ C ] UK a hard sweet, usually with a mint taste and strips of two different colours on the outside:
mint humbugs
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Sweets
- almond paste
- barley sugar
- bitter chocolate
- bittersweet chocolate
- boiled sweet
- cinnamon bun
- comfit
- confectioner
- confectionery
- cotton candy
- liquorice
- lollipop
- lolly
- marshmallow
- marzipan
- stick of rock
- sweetie
- sweetmeat
- sweety
- toffee
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