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
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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
I can understand why a man seeks to deceive his physician, because he is humbugging himself; but I can't see why he is not frank to his lawyer!
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
People think I'm humbugging when I say I can't see them.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
All the members of Parliament used to be skylarking about the city, playing tricks on one another, and humbugging the Castle people.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
