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humbug
Synonyms and Antonyms of humbug
- Tests showed that the "old" map of America was a cleverly made humbug.
- Those UFO stories are a lot of humbug.
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
- One humbug after another claimed to be the miraculously surviving daughter of the Russian czar.
ace, adept, authority, crackerjack (also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
Synonym Discussion of humbug
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- their claim of environmental concern is an imposture
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- the diary was exposed as a fraud
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- condemned the election as a sham
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- these jewels are fakes; the real ones are in the vault
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- creating publicity by foisting humbugs on a gullible public
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- 20-dollar bills that were counterfeits
humbug
Synonyms and Antonyms of humbug
- humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being
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
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