Crossword-Solution: HUMBUGGERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Humbuggery | n. | The practice of imposition. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “HUMBUGGERY”
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| Trickery | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with HUMBUGGERY (5)
That is, Venus's temples are like those of so many other religions in reverence among men--disbelief and solemn humbuggery at the altar; belief that would rather die than be undeceived, in the pews.
The fact is, that there is a vast deal of unintentional humbuggery in some of the accounts we have from scientific men concerning the religious institutions of Polynesia.
Mounted on their stilts, they think they are on their feet, and perform their jugglery with a sort of innocence; their humbuggery is in their blood; they are born comedians, braggarts; extravagant in form as a Chinese vase; perhaps they even laugh at themselves.
Solid Information--A Fossil Community--Curious Ways and Customs --Jesuit Humbuggery--Fantastic Pilgrimizing--Origin of the Russ Pavement --Squaring Accounts with the Fossils--At Sea Again CHAPTER VII.
But you must mark the difference; we ha'n't Yankees, nor we don't believe in their infernal humbuggery about abolition.
Quotes with HUMBUGGERY (2)
So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the genuine article. (Ask the Gnostics.) They trust in Jesus Christ, a historical cipher stitched together like Frankenstein's monster out of parts robbed from the graves of messiahs dead and buried - a savior on a stick. They trust in the virgin-pimping Allah and his Drum Major Mohammed, a prophet-come-lat…
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).