humbug
noun
something intended to delude or deceive.
humbugging
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present participleof humbug.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Stranded in his "useless position" at Transport, Reith seethed while Churchill put together his "rotten" wartime coalition full of "humbugging and sycophantic" ministers.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tell you I’ve only been humbugging you all along.”
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford
It’s surprising how these humbugging old myths survive in the country, and the further away from Town you get, the more you find of them.”
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
I am to be shot out, and the old brute’s going to preach me a humbugging canting sermon first.”
From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford
Faith, I'd swap soon enough if you weren't humbugging me.
From Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
