Word: humbugged
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...have done with all this humbug about political things, among ourselves, at any rate, since it is hardly a question of our being needed to humbug the people...
...primary results "are a fraud upon the people and mislead thousands of well-meaning persons who have not been brought face to face with the facts." An exact description, which the American people, with their "ancient and inbred honesty and integrity," ought to make an obituary, of this costly humbug device to find out nothing. --New York Times...
...quote one passage, however, which, although splendidly positive and indicative of vigorous individual taste, might well be moderated. "Thackery as a personality and a social philosopher I cannot abide: his point of view being expressive of the mixture of ignorance, snobbery, humbug, and conceit, which has made the British Empire in more than one sense the wonder of the world...
...went to "Major Pendennis" at the Hollis Theatre with feelings of the warmest expectation. Thackery as a personality and a social philosopher I cannot abide, his point of view being expressive of the mixture of ignorance, snobbery, humbug, and conceit which has made the British Empire in more than one sense the wonder of the world. But as an atmospheric artist Thackery is quite otherwise, and it was this quality of atmosphere one expected to encounter in Mr. Langdon Mitchell's adaptation of "Pendennis." Superficially it is attained, owing to the well known talent in production of Mr. Iden Payne...
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