I ... merely ... said that I know you to be what you Yankees call a humbug!. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play] Reference
To be honest, I've grown to be a bit of a "humbug" on Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [Buy Nothing Day 2.0] Reference
Mrs Harold Smith had commenced with a mind fixed upon avoiding what she called humbug; but this sort of humbug had become so prominent. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
The derivation of humbug from the Irish uim boig ` false coin 'would provide a perfect partner, but it is, alas, groundless. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
We are forced to walk on what you call humbug; we put it under our feet, but we use it. ". From Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
A certain cant word called humbug had lately come into vogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
I certainly think that Stewart, whom I should be sorry to call a humbug, shows less vigour and subtlety. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
A Christmas Carol is read by acclaimed actor Geoffrey Palmer, who utters a mean 'humbug'. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives] Reference
I cannot rid myself of the feeling that there is something false, a kind of humbug, in all this. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
It smacks of the kind of humbug and cant to which all ministries eventually succumb but some at least have the good grace to begin without. From Wordnik.com. [David Cameron, his Goats & his Pocket Boroughs] Reference
Ah, what an ancient humbug is Love!. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
The Caffres in Southern Africa have a kind of humbug somewhat like the. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
The public do not call him a "humbug;" they very properly term him a swindler. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
Some have told him "humbug" while others have asked to sit on his lap, he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
A severe instance of the use of the term "humbug" occurred in a court of justice. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
The "humbug" in this transaction, of course consisted solely in the manner of advertising. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
He is correctly set down as a "humbug," while this term is never applied to the other actor. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
I cannot rid myself of the feeling that there is something false -- a kind of humbug -- in all this. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
I scarcely deserve to be called a humbug for acting to the best of my judgment in peculiar circumstances. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Gorilla Hunters] Reference
The florid gentleman (still privately believing it to be all "humbug") was delighted to make himself of any use. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels] Reference
An honest man who thus arrests public attention will be called a "humbug," but he is not a swindler or an impostor. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
They let it be known that no more of that kind of humbug would be tolerated without reprisals, and the hint was taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of St. Helena] Reference
Not that there can remain too many Scrooges, still prepared to mutter "humbug" at such a heady vintage both on the Flat and over jumps. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
"Yes; that's a kind of humbug a hundred years old. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference
A "humbug" as one of them (an Englishman) often expressed it. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Trapper] Reference
"humbug" was so great, it was difficult to obtain a plain straightforward reply from him; but had the Secretary of. From Wordnik.com. [The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete] Reference
"Oh, stop this humbug," interrupted Newall angrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
It's looking and sounding more and more like "Bah humbug!". From Wordnik.com. [Through A Glass, Darkly] Reference
Senators said it was a humbug, that it was Jacob Townsend's. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Most of the anti-humbug crusaders have something of their own to sell. From Wordnik.com. [Scam Busters On The Web] Reference
Now it is languor, ennui, stomach troubles -- all imagination and humbug!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Now, however, the whole excitement has turned out to be a complete humbug. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
"Do you know, Tom, it looks uncommonly like a piece of deliberate humbug!". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
'Must we starve on account of your silly notions about virtue, and such humbug?. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
There is no subject on which men talk, and think, more humbug than on that subject of morality. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
When Stanton was informed by messenger of the night's events, he at first had dismissed it as humbug. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Lincoln Died] Reference
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