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
In fact, it was mainly the humbuggery that gave Gauguin a reputation�long before Somerset Maugham set his pen to The Moon and Sixpence�of being the very prototype of the artist in revolt against his society.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Granville Barker seems observant and compassionate, while Shaw is caught up in paradox and amiable humbuggery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Feargus O'Connor, a hot-headed bully and coward, who had stigmatized the pacific doctrines as "moral-force humbuggery," was sent to York Castle.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
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