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Definition of Humbuggeries
1. humbuggery [n] - See also: humbuggery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humbuggeries
Literary usage of Humbuggeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"... and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along
with it. It is pathetic enough, that a whitewashed castle, with turrets ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"some and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton- factories and locomotives;
and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive ..."
3. Lights and Shadows of American Life by Mary Russell Mitford (1832)
"... he held all other humbuggeries and pretensions in equal aversion. If a new
preacher got into vogue, by tickling the ears of silly folks with big words, ..."
4. The Talisman for by William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck (1827)
"Nor did he confine this enmity to the quackery of his own art: he held all other
humbuggeries and pretensions in equal aversion. If a new preacher got into ..."
5. The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century: A Prospective History by Henry Lazarus (1897)
"Next, Carlyle Democritus remembered the Jubilee law humbuggeries, and herein he
worked a great reform. He established, or assisted and subsidised such as ..."
6. The Winston Simplified Dictionary: Including All the Words in Common Use by William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer (1919)
"... of trickery or deception. tenses; sham; a plausible deceiver; a spirit
num-DUg-ger-y humbuggeries(-Iz)], ..."
7. Heine in America by Henry Baruch Sachs (1916)
"He was the master of a pregnant sarcasm: he brought down a hundred humbuggeries
if he brought -down two. At times he plays with you with a deliberate, ..."
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