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humbugging

verb , present participle of humbug

Synonyms and Antonyms of humbugging

to cause to believe what is untrue

humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being

Synonyms of humbugging

bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, buffaloing, burning, catching, conning, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gammoning, gulling, having, having on [chiefly British], hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snookering, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking

Words Related to humbugging

kidding, putting on, teasing

bleeding, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling

Phrases Synonymous with humbugging

doing a number on, leading one down the garden path (also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of humbugging

debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking

disclosing, divulging, telling, unveiling

disabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning

Antonyms of humbugging

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