humbug

Synonyms

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle;

Near Antonyms

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness;

common sense, horse sense, sense;

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom;

Related Words

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy;

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness;

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery;

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole);

double-talk, hocus-pocus;

Synonyms

bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gull, have, hoax, hoodwink, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snow, spoof, string along, take in, trick;

Antonyms

undeceive;

Near Antonyms

debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask;

disclose, divulge, tell, unveil;

disabuse, disenchant, disillusion;

Related Words

kid, put on, tease;

bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle;

Phrases

do a number on, lead one down the garden path (also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes;