Definitions
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Used in a sentence
“He is a political humbug, the greatest of all humbugs; a man who swaggers about London clubs and consults solemnly about his influence, and in the country is a nonentity.”
“All poets are humbugs, all literary men are humbugs; directly a man begins to sell his feelings for money he’s a humbug.”
“He means that he has sold out to the parliamentary humbugs and the bourgeoisie. Compromise! that is his faith.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Nonsense or deception”6 letters
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