humbuggery
humbuggery noun: trickery; deception.
Noun
humbuggery (countable and uncountable, plural humbuggeries)
- 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
- Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona.2001, James W. Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum
Forms of humbuggery
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Origin of humbuggery
From humbug + -ery.
Questions about humbuggery
- What does humbuggery mean?
- Humbuggery means trickery; deception.
- What part of speech is humbuggery?
- Humbuggery is a noun.
- What is the plural of humbuggery?
- The plural of humbuggery is humbuggeries.
Words near humbuggery in the dictionary
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