13 Verbs to Use for the Word humbug
Charlton's old, bitter aggressiveness, which had well-nigh died out under the sweet influences of Lurton's peacefulness, came back now, and he mentally pronounced the new chaplain a clerical humbug and an ecclesiastical fop, and all such mild paradoxical epithets as he was capable of forming.
Perceiving nothing therenot even a swallow to be chasedhe barked twice (the humbug!)
"Can't you see, Molly, that I hate the infernal humbug and the cruelty of it all?
Hehe hired a wretched humbug of a man who pretended to be an English swell to teach him manners, so that he could be a little worthier of you.
"And said nothing about her to us, you inveterate humbug," added Marcus.
"At you," said the man, "you look such a humbug."
" "I suppose I must play the humbug.
I can't have any humbugs here, though I have sent out some humbugs.
A personal letter would not have satisfied his virtuous indignation; he chose a loud "yellow journal," a laboratory of blackmail despised by a million Frenchmen, who nevertheless swallowed all its humbug with open mouths.
Don't talk humbug, Mr. William Dawson.
" Somehow or other these good boys always turn out humbugs.
He answered promptly, "A humbug."
I write no humbug about "candidly giving your opinion, etc., etc."