All humbug synonyms

noun humbug

• claptrap — If you describe something that someone says as claptrap, you mean that it is stupid or foolish although it may sound important.
• twaddle — trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
• garbage — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
• bunkum — If you say that something that has been said or written is bunkum, you mean that you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
• codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• hot air — empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
• con game — a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler; a shortened form of confidence game
• snow job — an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.