humbuggery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of humbuggery
Example Sentences
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Reviewing Ancient Evenings, the critic Harold Bloom discussed what he called, quaintly, Mailer's "humbuggery and bumbuggery".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2014
In response to all the humbuggery, the anonymous organizers who run the website and help coordinate the event broke from their usual policy of not taking questions from the news media.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2013
Exposing their humbuggery, dishonesty, pomposity, spells FUN to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The majority answered that, with all humbuggery discounted, a large number of successes remained which could not be accounted for by luck or chance.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was introduced into associative life in "Transcendental days," and many a tale he told of the departed ones, often alluding to them as "extinct volcanoes of Transcendental nonsense and humbuggery."
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas
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