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humbuggeries

humbuggeries is the plural of humbuggery.

Meaning of humbuggery

Noun

humbuggery (countable and uncountable, plural humbuggeries)

  1. trickery; deception
    • 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.1996, Charles Arthur Willard, Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy

Questions about humbuggeries

What is humbuggeries the plural of?
Humbuggeries is the plural of humbuggery.

Words near humbuggeries in the dictionary

  1. humbuged
  2. humbugeous
  3. humbuggable
  4. humbugged
  5. humbugger
  6. humbuggeries
  7. humbuggers
  8. humbuggery
  9. humbugging
  10. humbuggings
  11. humbuggish

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