What does humbuggery mean?
Humbuggery means trickery; deception.
Humbuggery
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
trickery; deception.
Example Sentences
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.
Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona.
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Word Forms
- humbuggeries
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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.
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