Word Meanings - HUMBUG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. 2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. 3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.

Additional info about word: HUMBUG

1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. 2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. 3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. Sir J. Stephen.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HUMBUG)

• Blandiloquence
• Glossiness
• blarney
• humbug
• flattery
• speciousness
• adulation

Related words: (words related to HUMBUG)

• HUMBUG
  1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. 2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. 3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• BLARNEY
  Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.
• ADULATION
  Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak. Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment.
• HUMBUGGERY
  The practice of imposition.
• BLANDILOQUENCE
  Mild, flattering speech.
• GLOSSINESS
  The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. Boyle.
• HUMBUGGER
  One who humbugs.