Humbuggery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Humbuggery is a noun meaning trickery; deception.
Meaning
trickery; deception.
Example Sentences
Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona.
Both see Leviathan more as a photograph than a metaphor — a reality veiled by rhetoric — and thereby claim a position of epistemic privilege, a Realpolitik, a discourse shorn of humbuggery and pretense.
Word Forms
- humbuggeries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include humbuggism, trickery, humbugism, jiggery-pokery, trickeration, chicanery.
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