humbug
胡说八道,胡说乱道,胡扯,谣言
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : something devoid of sense or meaning; nonsense: a humbug of technical jargon.
- : British. a variety of hard mint candy.
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hum·bugged, hum·bug·ging.
- : to impose upon by humbug or false pretense; delude; deceive.
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hum·bugged, hum·bug·ging.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
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.