Example Sentences

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“Because,” he added, “Although I ain’t been in the city long, I ain’t to be humbugged; it won’t do for you to try to put off your confounded mock turtles on me!”

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2018

The sooner America knows we are not going to be humbugged the better it is.

From Time Magazine Archive

P. T. Barnum recorded the fact that the American people delight in being humbugged, and such is still the national mood.

From Time Magazine Archive

They who suffer themselves to be humbugged and fleeced by him have their own stupidity to thank for it.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von

The speaker was particularly severe on the lazy lives of the parsons, and the way in which they humbugged the people. 

From Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)