Words and phrases that have a meaning related to humbug: (147 results)
Often used in the same context:
poppycock, balderdash, tosh, nonsense, bunkum, jingoism, codswallop, hokum, twaddle, baloney, killjoy, claptrap, buncombe, pedantry, tommyrot, fiddlesticks, hooey, piffle, hogwash, hypocritic, jolly, prigs, pomposity, curmudgeon, flapdoodle, flummery, scrooge, crapola, grandiloquence, cynic, idiocy, jolliness, sayer, phooey, flatteries, sophistry, hyperbole, jackanapes, charlatan, foolishness, obfuscation, politically correct, grouches, hypocrisy, popery, boastfulness, philistinism, blarney, malarkey, doggerel, sophism, sanctimony, wowsers, bollocks, jingo, political correctness, moralizing, fatuity, prevarication, falsehood, prating, poltroon, disingenuousness, crackpot, untruth, easter bunny, foolery, tautology, wishful thinking, warmongering, jabberwocky, persiflage, blather, harrumphing, churl, antisemite, pinko, jape, folderol, drivel, crock, pontificator, forsooth, pish, birdbrained, demagoguery, pommy, imprecation, cynicism, bootlicking, knave, imposture, snivel, mendacity, raillery, doublespeak, pompousness, hifalutin, sham, affectation, humbugs, pretense, cant, fools, fraud, hypocrites, prig, cheat, fake, fool, hoax, snob, tomfoolery, conventionality, forgery, bluff, medusa, airiest, aquiline, ashamed, baddest, bilious, blindest, boorish, clownish, crotchety, cuddly, devoutest, disputatious, donnish, droll, drugged, ebullient, effacing, exuberant
More general:
cozen, deceive, delude, lead on, meaninglessness, nonsensicality
Synonyms:
Also try:bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle
— Adjectives for humbug: old, such, great, mere, little, sheer, pure, much, greatest, arrant, solemn, more...
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