Humbug: alternatives and connections

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

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The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…

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Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

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To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

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An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe wha…

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To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…

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The act of deceiving or misleading.

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To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.

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Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

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Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person'…

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That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

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A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

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Figure; outline; show.

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To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

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The act or practice of duping.

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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…

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Alt. of Fraudulency

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A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

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Neat; trim.

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To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

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