Example Sentences

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Frank, vulgar, honest, honestly a humbugger, a lover of laughter, and almost unacquainted with wit.

From Time Magazine Archive

A scoffer by nature, a jeerer by temperament, a humbugger by education, the Parisian perpetually forces himself to accept nothing seriously, and to respect neither sex nor age nor glory.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William

I bet you he won't find her out; she's the jolliest little humbugger there is going.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Stowe, Harriet Beecher