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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

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

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 Mitford, Bertram

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 Mitford, Bertram

But as for books of travel, Tom, of all the humbugs of a humbugging age, there is nothing can approach them.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James