Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet HUMBUG

Definition av HUMBUG

1. humbug, bedrägeri
2. humbug, bedragare
3. dra vid näsan
4. bedra

Exempel på hur man kan använda HUMBUG i en mening

• The chicks, like most grebe chicks, have boldly striped heads, with alternating black and white stripes; they are often colloquially called "humbugs" from their resemblance to humbug sweets.
• The Wizard demonstrates his (humbug) magic powers in a contest with the Mangaboo Sorcerer, first, by "conjuring" nine tiny, mouse-sized piglets (actually taking them from his pocket by sleight-of-hand), and then, by lighting a fire, which is a phenomenon unknown to the Mangaboos.
• The Wizard turns out to be a "humbug" and can only provide a placebo heart made of silk and filled with sawdust.
• An advocate of workers' rights and social legislation, Tweedmouth was supportive of the Liberal Party's alliance with the Labour Party in the lead-up to the 1906 general election, believing that the Liberals could not win without it, and regarded as "humbug" the view that such an alliance meant class legislation.
• Roald Amundsen stated he was "the greatest humbug alive" referring to his mismanagement of the Wrangel Island fiascos.
• Barnum then introduces the oldest woman alive, Joice Heth, and thanks to some Barnum humbug she becomes a success ("Thank God I'm Old").
• He was educated at Eastacre, then Ludgrove School when it was at Cockfosters and described Ludgrove as a place of "humbug, snobbery and rampant, unchecked bullying" which he thought was intended to toughen the boys up.
• An increasingly silly catalogue of deaths and suicides announces the final surrender of the Golden Age Murder Mystery: Agatha Christie force-fed on Pevsner and the humbug of Kenneth Baker’s latest flag-waving anthology.
• The judge's summing-up to the jury just before their deliberations emphasised Thorpe's distinguished public record, but he was scathing about all the principal prosecution witnesses: Bessell was a "humbug", Scott a fraud, a sponger, a whiner, a parasite—"but of course he could still be telling the truth".
• He was thoroughly broad-minded and interested in current events, with a keen eye for humbug and priggishness.

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