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humbuggery

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Definitions

  1. trickery; deception

Word origin

From humbug + -ery.

Used in a sentence

  • Both see Leviathan more as a photograph than a metaphor — a reality veiled by rhetoric — and thereby claim a position of epistemic privilege, a Realpolitik, a discourse shorn of humbuggery and pretense.
  • Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona.

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