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humbug

DEFINITIONS OF: humbug

1

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

Synonyms:
dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on
Types:
goldbrick
anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
Type of:
chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

n communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

Synonyms:
snake oil
Type of:
deceit, deception, misrepresentation
a misleading falsehood

n pretentious or silly talk or writing

Synonyms:
baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
Type of:
bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
a message that seems to convey no meaning

v trick or deceive

Type of:
cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
be false to; be dishonest with
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