What is another word for humbug?
854 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ hˈʌmbʌɡ], [ hˈʌmbʌɡ], [ h_ˈʌ_m_b_ʌ_ɡ]
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Similar words for humbug:
- bilgewater (noun)
- bluff (noun)
- boloney (noun)
- bosh (noun)
- cant (noun)
- cheat (noun)
- communication (noun)
- counterfeit (noun)
- deceit (noun)
- deception (noun)
- drool (noun)
- dupery (noun)
- hoax (noun)
- hocus-pocus (noun)
- humbug (noun)
- hypocrite (noun)
- nonsense (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- quack (noun)
- bluff (verb)
- con (verb)
- deceive (verb)
- double-cross (verb)
- juggle (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- deceive
- delude
- juggle
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Humbug:
n.
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- hypocrite,
- fixer,
- liar,
- crook,
- brown-nose,
- politician,
- CONMAN,
- phony,
- wheeler dealer.
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- true.
- braggings,
- jivings,
- pre-tenses,
- pre tense,
- pre text,
- pre tenses,
- pre texts,
- pre-text,
- pre-texts,
- pre-tense.
- bosh.
- hypo criticalnesses,
- dis-honesty,
- in-sincerities,
- dis honesties,
- hypo-criticalness,
- in sincerities,
- pharisaicalnesses,
- sham holinesses,
- dis honesty,
- hypocriticalnesses,
- pecksnifferies,
- dis-honesties,
- in sincerity,
- hypo criticalness,
- hypo-criticalnesses,
- in-sincerity,
- affected pieties.
- bamboozlements,
- bill goods,
- puton,
- cozenings,
- fast ones,
- doubledealing,
- fast shuffles,
- shady deals,
- hoaxings,
- hankypanky.
- mis representation,
- mis-representation,
- mis representations,
- smoke mirrors,
- mis-representations,
- fraudulences.
- Hocuspocus,
- Hocus,
- Mummeries,
- mummery,
- incantation,
- gobbledegook,
- magic words,
- Occultism,
- magic word.
- playactor,
- sophist,
- two-timer,
- wolf in sheep's clothing,
- smoothies,
- fourflusher,
- dissemblers,
- Pharisees,
- four-flusher,
- trickster,
- backsliders,
- lip server,
- casuist,
- backslider,
- dissembler,
- smoothie,
- masqueraders,
- sophists,
- two-face,
- Attitudinizer,
- casuists,
- pharisee,
- bluffers,
- tartuffe,
- Dissimulator,
- masquerader.
- empty talk,
- poppycock,
- bull,
- drivel,
- bs,
- gibberish,
- balderdash,
- rubbish,
- hooey,
- hogwash,
- babble,
- trash,
- pretense,
- hot air,
- silliness.
- misrepresentation,
- meaninglessness,
- bamboozlement,
- nonsense,
- shenanigan,
- stall,
- victimization,
- hoser,
- slickers,
- deceit,
- Double dealing,
- fast shuffle,
- Sharks,
- jazz,
- jiving,
- Pharisaicalness,
- Quacksalver,
- shammer,
- shammers,
- pious platitude,
- baloney,
- feint,
- dirty trick,
- trickery,
- hypocriticalness,
- hokum,
- run around,
- chicanery,
- quack,
- sell,
- affected piety,
- swindle,
- cover up,
- shark,
- fraud,
- hosers,
- sham holiness,
- false front,
- simulator,
- cant,
- Hanky Panky,
- simulators,
- bunk,
- bluff,
- double-dealing,
- deception,
- ripoff,
- junque,
- hypocrisy,
- counterfeit,
- flimflammer,
- wile,
- phonies,
- pious platitudes,
- fast one,
- pecksniffery,
- guile,
- fraudulence,
- shady deal,
- nonsensicality,
- SHARPS,
- impostor,
- fake.
v.
• bluff (verb)- de fraud,
- de-fraud,
- be guiles,
- de ludes,
- be tray,
- Illuded,
- be trays,
- de lude,
- de frauds,
- Illuding,
- pre tends,
- mis leads,
- buncos,
- pre-tend,
- fakes out,
- de-ludes,
- mis lead,
- mis leading,
- be-tray,
- mis-leads,
- pre-tended,
- faking out,
- be guile,
- buncoing,
- pre-tends,
- mis-lead,
- psyching out,
- mis-leading,
- pre-tending,
- pre tending,
- de-lude,
- be-guiles,
- de-frauds,
- buncoed,
- be-trays,
- pre tend,
- be-guile,
- illudes,
- psychs out.
- dis-appoint,
- out-witting,
- take cleaners,
- impose up on,
- buffaloing,
- takes to cleaners,
- pulling fast one,
- imposing upon,
- taking for,
- crosses up,
- out witting,
- takes for ride,
- beating out of,
- dis-appointing,
- took advantage of,
- sucks in,
- taking to cleaners,
- plays joke on,
- out wits,
- pulled fast one,
- played joke on,
- imposes up on,
- out-wits,
- took cleaners,
- out-wit,
- dis appoint,
- took to cleaners,
- imposed up on,
- out witted,
- playing joke on,
- out-witted,
- taking cleaners,
- pulls fast one,
- beats out of,
- dis-appoints,
- dis-appointed,
- sucking in,
- dis appointing,
- crossing up,
- takes cleaners,
- took for ride,
- dis appointed,
- dis appoints,
- crossed up,
- took for,
- takes for,
- imposing up on.
- four flushing,
- fourflushed,
- fourflushing,
- four-flushed,
- stab the back,
- double dealt,
- stab back,
- sold down river,
- four-flushes,
- selling down the river,
- sold down the river,
- sells down the river,
- double deals,
- fourflushes,
- sells down river,
- two time,
- fourflush,
- four flushes,
- twotime,
- selling down river,
- four flushed,
- sell down river.
- dis-guised,
- mis represented,
- mis represents,
- dis-guises,
- prestidigitates,
- dis guises,
- prestidigitated,
- performing magic,
- dis-guising,
- mis-representing,
- performs magic,
- performed magic,
- dis guised,
- mis representing,
- mis-represents,
- prestidigitating,
- mis represent,
- dis-guise,
- dis guise,
- mis-represented,
- dis guising,
- mis-represent.
Other synonyms:
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- hoodwink,
- charlatan,
- mountebank.
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- dupe.
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- betray.
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- have.
- ensnared,
- buffaloed,
- outwitting,
- taking for ride,
- pull fast one,
- sucked in,
- led on,
- out wit,
- Buffaloes,
- cross up,
- imposed upon,
- take to cleaners,
- suck in,
- buffalo,
- take for,
- scamming,
- leads on,
- leading on,
- take for ride,
- beat out of,
- play joke on,
- Gouging,
- imposes upon,
- scammed,
- impose upon,
- Entrapped.
- Humbugging,
- fool,
- jive,
- psyched out,
- chicaned,
- fake out,
- con,
- four-flush,
- chicane,
- four-flushing,
- hoodwinked,
- chicaning,
- sell down the river,
- four flush,
- Humbugged,
- doublecross,
- double-cross,
- juggle,
- Snowing,
- faked out,
- double cross,
- deceive,
- bunco,
- fools,
- lied,
- Snowed,
- psych out,
- chicanes,
- stab in back,
- Illude,
- jives,
- jived,
- wheedle,
- double deal.
- history,
- hoodoo,
- snow,
- story,
- pull the wool over someone's eyes,
- overreach,
- Forelay,
- horse feathers,
- copy,
- baragouin,
- trick,
- gas,
- waylay,
- entangle,
- forestall,
- unfaithful,
- divert,
- canter,
- lampoon,
- confound,
- jabber,
- fraudulent,
- nut,
- quackery,
- nobble,
- bullshit,
- pseudo,
- outreach,
- have on,
- canard,
- jape,
- jargon,
- Blague,
- faker,
- folly,
- outmaneuver,
- hum,
- outwit,
- inveigle,
- hornswoggle,
- Trapan,
- song and dance,
- paper-hanger,
- dissimulation,
- affectation,
- get around,
- enmesh,
- show,
- gobbledygook,
- chatter,
- take for a ride,
- game,
- prattle,
- Barney,
- ensnare,
- parody,
- sham,
- lip service,
- role player,
- bollocks,
- cajolery,
- bombast,
- pluck,
- fib,
- sanctimony,
- disguise,
- fleece,
- bogus,
- talk,
- tripe,
- funny business,
- simulation,
- horseshit,
- codswallop,
- influence,
- cunning,
- Pugh,
- buncombe,
- Puffery,
- front,
- juggler,
- takeoff,
- cobblers,
- craft,
- patter,
- knave,
- Formalist,
- flapdoodle,
- fictitious,
- chit-chat,
- mere words,
- phoney,
- furtive,
- bluster,
- never mind,
- poseur,
- pretender,
- Bibble-babble,
- flannel,
- feigning,
- sendup,
- Defrauder,
- guff,
- pose,
- layer,
- mouth honor,
- lure,
- disingenuous,
- crap,
- treachery,
- bewray,
- misguide,
- mockery,
- hoaxer,
- platitude,
- gimmick,
- ringer,
- falderal,
- impersonator,
- hocus-pocus,
- artful,
- jabberwocky,
- tommy-rot,
- Pish,
- mystify,
- untrue,
- false,
- fakir,
- rip off,
- stuff and nonsense,
- braggadocio,
- fakery,
- bilk,
- pooh-pooh,
- mischief,
- rigmarole,
- varnish,
- pasquinade,
- pretext,
- nuts,
- rot,
- duplicity,
- Double dealer,
- chouse,
- artificial,
- crapola,
- jesuitism,
- slobber,
- prate,
- trifler,
- bad faith,
- delusion,
- mumbo jumbo,
- gilt,
- semblance,
- adventurer,
- travesty,
- decoy,
- razzmatazz,
- jiggery-pokery,
- forsake,
- Tut,
- shanghai,
- tale,
- circumvent,
- line,
- shifty,
- garbage,
- claptrap,
- posture,
- perfidy,
- bilge water,
- dissembling,
- bilge,
- impose,
- pull leg,
- insincerity,
- rodomontade,
- jesuitry,
- muck,
- snooker,
- DO,
- posing,
- bluffer,
- baffle,
- Inveigler,
- moonshine,
- gibber,
- Saltimbanco,
- pretence,
- inanity,
- twist,
- folderol,
- eyewash,
- fudge,
- trip up,
- deceitful,
- confidence man,
- cock,
- unintelligibility,
- defraud,
- amphigory,
- gammon,
- wish-wash,
- soi-disant,
- pigeon,
- hokeypokey,
- nick,
- tush,
- actor,
- blah,
- rigamarole,
- senselessness,
- crocodile tears,
- skimble-skamble,
- Swindling,
- deceptive,
- bunk bull,
- counterfeiter,
- fiddle,
- stump,
- waffling,
- monkey business,
- play false,
- fiddlestick,
- caper,
- con man,
- imposter,
- sharp practice,
- pretend,
- sell out,
- Bluffing,
- acting,
- knavish,
- blarney,
- Springe,
- seeming,
- dribble,
- cheat on,
- puzzle,
- piffle,
- Twattle,
- Bam,
- con artist,
- facade,
- mock,
- blagueur,
- Charlatanry,
- flatter,
- appearance,
- vagueness,
- skin game,
- Illaqueate,
- stuff,
- rant,
- tease,
- pretension,
- Pharisaism,
- take-in,
- blether orblather,
- Fooling,
- prevarication,
- stage player,
- outmanoeuvre,
- burlesque,
- scoundrel,
- shit,
- Beans,
- barracuda,
- gab,
- horsefeathers,
- falsehood,
- speciousness,
- fast-talk,
- entrap,
- Nousel,
- denounce,
- absurdity,
- Immesh,
- take,
- gloss,
- crock,
- bunkum,
- blather,
- Humbuggery,
- play one false,
- faking,
- dissemble,
- stuff up,
- foolishness,
- sharper,
- hoke,
- erroneous,
- palaver,
- deceiver,
- misdirect,
- colouring,
- flattery,
- Fiddledeedee,
- waffle,
- apple sauce,
- lead astray,
- balls,
- kid,
- Pooh,
- Pecksniff,
- treacherous,
- punk,
- lip homage,
- confuse,
- no matter,
- affectedness,
- misinform,
- ride,
- imposture,
- dishonest,
- diddle,
- bait the hook,
- stupidity,
- Pshaw,
- Bavardage,
- flummox,
- fustian,
- pseud,
- coloring,
- slush,
- conjure,
- trifle with,
- poser,
- illegitimate,
- blither,
- Gibble-gabble,
- Sniggle,
- lime,
- malarkey,
- string along,
- unfair,
- sanctimoniousness,
- two-time,
- spurious,
- victimize,
- fiddlesticks,
- verbiage,
- artifice,
- rook,
- swill,
- cog,
- blether,
- color,
- charlatanism,
- window dressing,
- come over,
- falsity,
- Intrap,
- kidnap,
- meretriciousness,
- fiddle-de-dee,
- falseness,
- let in,
- rope in,
- Babblement,
- false show,
- nerts,
- hook in,
- vaporing,
- fiddle-faddle,
- flim-flam,
- put over on,
- Flam,
- simulacrum,
- antic,
- Dissemblance,
- bushwa,
- bewilder,
- blatherskite,
- secret language,
- imitation,
- face,
- rogue,
- cajole,
- Quackism,
- Galimatias,
- malingerer,
- wind,
- applesauce,
- Pietist,
- flummery,
- trumpery,
- truism,
- ostentation,
- bungler,
- abandon,
- catch,
- let down,
- balk,
- double-talk,
- playacting,
- beat,
- truck,
- representation,
- joke,
- mendacious,
- twit,
- charade,
- gabble,
- weasel words,
- attitudinizing,
- Whited Sepulchre,
- gull,
- factitious,
- put something over on,
- ballocks,
- bitch,
- josh,
- Nousle,
- cackle,
- blabber,
- Stultiloquence,
- hollowness,
- plant,
- masquerade,
- outsmart,
- cheating,
- swindler,
- trepan,
- boasting.
How to use "Humbug" in context?
There's something about the word "humbug" that just rubs people the wrong way. To some, it's just a less dignified version of the word "bag"; to others, it's just a cheap way to belittle someone. But for some people, the word "humbug" holds a completely different meaning. To them, it's something that represents wholeheartedly embracing their unpopular side.
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