Sentences with humbug
hum·bug
H h - There was all the usual humbug and obligatory compliments from ministers.
- A humbug of technical jargon.
- Is he a journalist for whom the principles of his profession override everything else, or is he a complete humbug who has lied to protect a source of information for a story which led to him winning an award for journalism?
- I can see in their teachings nothing but humbug, untainted by any trace of truth.
- It would be humbug to pretend that authors at literary festivals have their minds on higher things than selling books.
- This obesity debate is full of humbug and denial.
- The best buys include coffee beans, chocolate, mint humbugs and, of course, clotted cream shortbread.
- Bad information and bad guesses occasionally humbugged both, which they overcame by determination and the fighting qualities of their forces.
- His response to all this humbuggery has been to suggest a spontaneous uprising among the oppressed Christians of America.
- All scientists have a bit of humbuggery about them don't you think.
- It takes a vicious swipe at the humbuggery that has taken over modern politics, and the continuing double-standards applying to men and women in public office.
- He was troubled by the way his companions were taken in by the humbuggery of their guides.
- As part of her enterprise she shipped nostalgic English confection like humbugs and aniseed balls, to Navy men, tossing on the high seas.
- Aniseed balls originated as digestifs; humbugs developed from medieval cold cures; liquorice was thought good for coughs.
- From most of the preachers and all the humbugs they expect nothing else.