How to Use humbug in a Sentence

humbug

noun

• Like every state, Colorado has its folklore, hoaxes, tall tales and humbugs.
  — Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
• Inside the nondescript red-brick office building, black and white offices are stacked like humbugs.
  — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2016
• The 1892 Russian ballet is bah-humbug for some viewers, even with Tchaikovsky’s luscious and romantic music.
  — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Despite the precedents, few were amused by the Herald’s brazen exercise in journalistic humbug.
  — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• The commercial web steams on as a hopped-up, strung-out system of hyperlinks, engineered to mix Barnumesque humbug with authentic reports, and to overlap ads and news—the better to sucker the eye.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• No Star Wars has ever made a better case for the Force than this film, which finally mends the damage done by the midi-chlorian humbug introduced in the disastrous prequel films.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 14 Dec. 2017
• Instead, what the mother of three woke up to on Wednesday, November 22, was a bah-humbug message from staffers at Nextdoor.com, alerting her of a policy violation.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2017
• Merriam-Webster defines a humbug as something or someone that is false or deceptive.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe and Douglas S. Wood, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019
• Luckily for those feeling bah-humbug about the inclement cold weather down South, rain should stop by Thursday night as temperatures start climbing to the 60s in Texas by Saturday, forecasters say.
  — Courtney Campbell, Country Living, 6 Dec. 2017
• Women found the words giggle, beast, circus, grand, juju, humbug, slicker, sweat, ennui, holder, momma and sod funny while people under 32 were partial to goatee, joint and gangster.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2017
• Deception, however, permeated the culture, whether in the form of hoaxes, humbugs or confidence men.
  — Louis P. Masur, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• This was familiar big-corporation humbug, custom-built to obscure the real issues.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• If formal festivities aren’t your style and the thought of hosting yet another cocktail party leaves you cold, consider getting the gang together for seasonal shenanigans designed to kick bah-humbug to the curb.
  — Bonnie McCarthy, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Like every state, Colorado has its folklore, hoaxes, tall tales and humbugs.
  — Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
• Inside the nondescript red-brick office building, black and white offices are stacked like humbugs.
  — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2016
• The 1892 Russian ballet is bah-humbug for some viewers, even with Tchaikovsky’s luscious and romantic music.
  — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Despite the precedents, few were amused by the Herald’s brazen exercise in journalistic humbug.
  — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• The commercial web steams on as a hopped-up, strung-out system of hyperlinks, engineered to mix Barnumesque humbug with authentic reports, and to overlap ads and news—the better to sucker the eye.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• No Star Wars has ever made a better case for the Force than this film, which finally mends the damage done by the midi-chlorian humbug introduced in the disastrous prequel films.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 14 Dec. 2017
• Instead, what the mother of three woke up to on Wednesday, November 22, was a bah-humbug message from staffers at Nextdoor.com, alerting her of a policy violation.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2017
• Merriam-Webster defines a humbug as something or someone that is false or deceptive.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe and Douglas S. Wood, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019
• Luckily for those feeling bah-humbug about the inclement cold weather down South, rain should stop by Thursday night as temperatures start climbing to the 60s in Texas by Saturday, forecasters say.
  — Courtney Campbell, Country Living, 6 Dec. 2017
• Women found the words giggle, beast, circus, grand, juju, humbug, slicker, sweat, ennui, holder, momma and sod funny while people under 32 were partial to goatee, joint and gangster.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2017
• Deception, however, permeated the culture, whether in the form of hoaxes, humbugs or confidence men.
  — Louis P. Masur, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• This was familiar big-corporation humbug, custom-built to obscure the real issues.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• If formal festivities aren’t your style and the thought of hosting yet another cocktail party leaves you cold, consider getting the gang together for seasonal shenanigans designed to kick bah-humbug to the curb.
  — Bonnie McCarthy, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017

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