Synonyms of humbugging

humbugging

verb

present participle of humbug

as in fooling

to cause to believe what is untrue

humbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fooling
• tricking
• deceiving
• kidding
• gulling
• teasing
• misleading
• cozening
• deluding
• bamboozling
• hoaxing
• conning
• duping
• suckering
• misguiding
• bluffing
• hoodwinking
• misinforming
• juggling
• cheating
• gaffing
• stinging
• sucking in
• beguiling
• snookering
• snowing
• burning
• taking in
• stringing along
• having
• spoofing
• gammoning
• catching
• having on
• hornswoggling
• doing a number on
• faking out
• buffaloing
• pulling one's leg
• leading one up the garden path
• swindling
• mulcting
• leading one down the garden path
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• fleecing
• defrauding
• sticking
• rooking
• putting on
• bleeding
• shortchanging
• hustling
• flimflamming
• chiselling
• diddling
• chiseling
• squeezing
• skinning
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• revealing
• exposing
• uncovering
• undeceiving
• debunking
• telling
• showing up
• disclosing
• unmasking
• divulging
• disabusing
• unveiling
• disillusioning
• uncloaking
• disenchanting