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Examples of humbug


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I congratulate him on his success in humbugging both sides, and making both sides believe, that they hare got a great bargain.
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I have always known they were humbugs—equality, serving their brother men, taking the profit motive out of industry and all that nonsense.
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Ought we not to stop humbugging ourselves and face the real issue?
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The people do not want to be soothed, humbugged and drugged any more.
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They have humbugged themselves and everybody else for a generation.
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They are sick to death of being humbugged in this way.
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I suppose you were humbugging all the time and had your tongue in your check.
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They are a crowd of hypocritical humbugs who come along here mouthing pious expressions of sympathy.
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I am tired of those humbugs who turn their heads away and say that it is not really going on.
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Do not let us be humbugged about this.
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What is the use of humbugging each other?
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If they do not they are frauds and humbugs.
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Here again the saving on lollipops and humbugs could have been used to give some significant assistance.
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In my experience, advisory boards are usually complete humbugs.
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They look at one in amazement, and one realises that they think we are complete humbugs in this matter.
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Do not let us be humbugs in that way.
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You are humbugging the country.
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If they do not do it, then all their speeches are so much vainglorious vote catching, and they will be denouncing themselves to their own constituents as humbugs.
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Who are the humbugs now?
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I think it is that a great many people have always thought we were humbugs and hypocrites, and very often did not mean what we said.
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They are a collection of humbugs.
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We have been humbugged and humiliated.
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I am a warrior against humbugs, because it is my opinion that humbugs and hypocrites do far more harm in the world than all the warriors in the world.
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The parent is silenced by the politician, and the doctrine itself is put forward by men whose educational arguments are unsound and whose private conduct labels them as humbugs.
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I entirely agree, so long as there is a rule providing that there be no admission for humbugs, which would be one means of keeping him out.
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What is the use of humbugging?
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I venture to suggest that we should not be such humbugs as to say that we do not want the masses to see what they like.
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We have been hypocritical humbugs about it.
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Is there any possibility of remedying this situation by requiring manufacturers to put a small quantity of fluoride in their bars of chocolates, humbugs and gob-stoppers?
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We save our bah humbugs for the things that exploit the vulnerable.
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To accuse anyone of humbug is not our normal custom.
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Here is an opportunity to prove that it is not humbug and hypocrisy.
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He knows perfectly well that that is humbug.
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There is a great deal of bunkum and humbug spoken with regard to the motives which incite men to work.
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We all know that the proposal is rank humbug and has no meaning whatever.
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I believe that we must strip some of the humbug from all this and get down to the reality of the matter.
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I think he even used the phrase that it was mere humbug to go on with it under present conditions.
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There is an amount of hypocrisy and almost of humbug about our treatment of it, which strikes me as appalling.
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Increasingly, as the months and years go by, we are seeing more muddle, more humbug and more hypocrisy.
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Is that the humbug that he is hiding behind?
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They do the maximum possible harm because the public knows that they are humbug.
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Now, it is perfect humbug to talk thus about this country having a general capability.
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We have had a lot of hypocrasy and humbug in this debate.
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Why not cut out all the humbug, and say exactly what we want in this matter?
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The sort of humbug contained in the documents under debate—and also in the statement this evening—has become endemic.
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There has been much humbug talked about this.
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Let us therefore have no more humbug about that.
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The charge of racism is nonsense and humbug.
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Therefore, do not let us have all this humbug about £100 million.
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They are the worst menace to peace, for they deceive other countries as to their intentions, and humbug their own country into a false security.
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I have never heard a more humbug opposition.
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Such humbug and hypocrisy is going on in this country.
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They expose that claim as the humbug that it largely is.
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We have had plenty of humbug and hypothetical questions tonight.
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What humbug there is in this economy programme!
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We should then avoid a lot of humbug.
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A lot of this talk about the sanctity of treaties gets perilously near humbug.
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I think that is the most unutterable humbug.
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All we have heard about currency is humbug.
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They may have changed the name of their party, but they have not changed their humbug.
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The sad part of all this is that so many people are beginning to swallow that humbug.
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Is it not complete humbug to talk about this being new money?
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I think that it is humbug and double standards.
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In the past few months, there has been much coded humbug about industry funding for these services.
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All the humbug about solicitors protecting people is so much hot air.
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I know that humbug is the essential lubricant of public life, but that is ridiculous.
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Sadly, their views are often cocooned in humbug.
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The suggestion that these men could be accommodated with employment elsewhere is hypocritical humbug.
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I am sure they talk a lot of humbug, because they know what a lot is being done under it.
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If not, let us stop a lot of this humbug and hypocrisy.
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To drive away that trade and then complain of unemployment is either stupidity or humbug.
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If not, it will be a precious piece of humbug.
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The amendments before us reveal that argument as humbug, because they would rule out the possibility of a directly elected assembly.
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Therefore, the idea that this is all to do with equality is humbug.
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Let us remember that the whole thing reeks of humbug and hypocrisy.
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In this particular case, to call such contracts sacred is humbug.
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What humbug it is to say that they are not getting good treatment !
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See what humbug we have all been listening to about wanting to make progress.
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I ask him to consider the arguments for and against this proposition without talking so much about humbug and hypocrisy.
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Let us have none of this humbug and eyewash about how they are fighting inflation and bringing prices down, because it is totally irrelevant.
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Over the whole question of monetary correction there is a great deal of humbug.
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The consultants' high-toned moralising posture smacks to me and to many others of a mixture of humbug and greed.
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I think that it was an alliance against humbug.
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Send someone to inquire and you will discover, if you do not already know, that it is all humbug.
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I hope that he succeeds in doing so in spite of the humbug of his attack on me.
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In either case, let us call off our participation in the dangerous humbug of international conventions of so-called" human rights".
Better to sidestep all that humbug and focus on the concrete deeds themselves.
I wish to conclude, furthermore, by saying that equality between those in completely different situations is nothing but humbug and not equality at all.
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If not, it is better for us to say so, and whatever we may be accused of we shall not be accused of being humbugs.
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I suggest with respect that we are humbugging ourselves if we say that it is.
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I think it was a fine piece of work from that point of view, but they are arrant humbugs to grumble at other people.
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Then, not in order to help the old people—the humbugs!
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The great difference is that we are not such humbugs.
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He should have regard to the unvarnished common sense of the situation and not listen too much to the humbugs.
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If we are prepared to wait until the end of the war, we shall be told that we are humbugs, and nothing will be achieved.
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Another point is that the present position makes our country look as if we are complete humbugs.
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I think they are right and that we are complete and hideous humbugs over our betting laws.
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We are the most ghastly humbugs about two things: one is street book-making, and the other is gambling.
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I said that the man had been humbugging the doctor.
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We are only pointing out what humbugs they are.
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