0 dishonest talk, writing, or behaviour that is intended to deceive people:
1 a hard sweet, usually with a mint taste and strips of two different colours on the outside:
mint humbugs
I congratulate him on his success in humbugging both sides, and making both sides believe, that they hare got a great bargain.
I have always known they were humbugs—equality, serving their brother men, taking the profit motive out of industry and all that nonsense.
Ought we not to stop humbugging ourselves and face the real issue?
The people do not want to be soothed, humbugged and drugged any more.
They have humbugged themselves and everybody else for a generation.
They are sick to death of being humbugged in this way.
I suppose you were humbugging all the time and had your tongue in your check.
They are a crowd of hypocritical humbugs who come along here mouthing pious expressions of sympathy.
