humbug 的 4 个定义
- something intended to delude or deceive.
- the quality of falseness or deception.
- a person who is not what he or she claims or pretends to be; impostor.
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hum·bugged, hum·bug·ging.
- to impose upon by humbug or false pretense; delude; deceive.
hum·bugged, hum·bug·ging.
- to practice humbug.
humbug 近义词
nonsense
hoax
更多humbug例句
- Only a humbug would complain about this “Alice in Wonderland” like befuddlement.
- There is, inevitably, a lot of self-serving humbug and a lot of tedious pap.
- No one outside Limbaughland or Trumpville, Potemkin villages where no one will vote for Obama anyway, credited the humbug.
- We all bow to the seor, and I wonder if he is really the private secretary, or a private humbug, waiting around to ensnare us.
- Did the manufacturers of Alleotone feel downcast over the exposure of their humbug?
- In brief, Dowds scientific method is nothing more than unscientific humbug.
- You will find him in these pages, just the same humbug Wizard as before.
- "The Wizard of Oz has always been a humbug," agreed Dorothy.