(v. t.) To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
(n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
(n.) A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.
(n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vice, folly and humbug – it is the point of satire really.
(2) What more timely image could there be for his departure than a Christmas costume and a prescience for all the humbug that will inevitably attend his death.
(3) Shortly after, they began to produce confectioneries such as chocolate limes, humbugs and caramels.
(4) Gary McNair: War on Christmas Anyone who has ever felt like saying “Bah, humbug!” to the John Lewis ad will find a kindred spirit in Gary McNair, playing a Santa working in a down-at-heel Christmas grotto who decides to investigate what Christmas means if you are poor.
(5) But, you may exclaim, what humbug for countries that invaded Iraq to excoriate others for violating sovereignty.
(6) Counties lose their names, trains lose their livery, ginger snaps lose their flavour and mint humbugs their sharp corners ... under my derationalisation programme, Yorkshire would get back its Ridings, the red telephone box would be a preserved species, there would be Pullman cars called Edna, a teashop in every high street and a proper card index in the public library."
(7) Accusing his opponents of "the most blatant hypocrisy in pretending they have changed to a modern, enlightened party", Lord Lester said: "What they have done is seek to destroy the central purpose of the bill under the guise of giving rights to others and it's complete humbug done for electoral purposes."
(8) It has not reached the pitch of disintegration at which humbug can be dropped."
(9) Lymphocystis disease is reported for the first time from the white-tailed damselfish, Dascyllus aruanus, and the black-tailed humbug, Dascyllus melanurus.
(10) I thought of the tourist scrums pushing each other off the pavements, jostling for souvenir humbugs and wind-up Beefeaters.
(11) Typical young man's title, you see, typical piece of that sort of humbugging, canting rhetoric, which young men - bless their hearts - specialise in.
(12) We probably all know a few pre-Games humbug-criers – shouting themselves hoarse in stadiums or rapt and sometimes in tears in front of the TV – who have looked like Scrooge on Christmas morning in the last few weeks.
(13) So the return of WTPS may serve to revive the genre, the old ghost donning its armour to do battle once more with humbug and pomposity.
(14) It was a strange experience to hear this paragon of logic, sceptical of all humbug trotting out stories that normally he would have scoffed at.
(15) It's enough to put you off shopping altogether, and has done for Nicole Slavin who is "bah humbug about Christmas , partly because of the commercialisation and the sheer social pressure to buy people things".
(16) For Labour, with the taste of Suez still in their mouths, Hugh Gaitskell described this as "the worst humbug and hypocrisy."
(17) Their latest, Humbug , recorded in the Californian desert with Josh Homme, reveals a more mature, assured band.
Tosh
Definition:
(a.) Neat; trim.
Example Sentences:
(1) After removal of the Z group by catalytic hydrogenation and acetylation Ac-Arg(p-TosH)-NHMe was obtained.
(2) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
(3) The Treasury has stopped trying to blame the eurozone for the state of the economy, which is just as well since that was tosh.
(4) Or, to put it more straightforwardly: most of what is in the Bible is complete tosh.
(5) Unfortunately, Julian's tape ends there and as £20 seems an awful lot to charge for this tosh we're including 100 pages of WikiLeaks documents you've already read before.
(6) Photograph: Alamy Some of this may have been tosh – we don’t wave flags because a politician advises us to, but do it quite naturally for sporting events and the like – but at least it was consistent tosh.
(7) I took them and bolted them on to high-end meta-tosh.” His fellow researcher was the youthful Peter Bazalgette, who ended up as chair of the UK arm of Endemol Productions, and who made 1990s lifestyle shows such as Changing Rooms and Ground Force.
(8) Tim Harford of the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less tries to keep his head above the sea of tosh.
(9) Daniel Tosh continues to broadcast in the States, unbowed by the row that greeted his unpleasant response to a female heckler (“Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?”).
(10) He admits it has been the most difficult aspect of his job, but it has not deterred him from taking the government to task on issues including underperforming academy trusts and, most recently, plans to expand grammar schools to benefit the poor, which he dismissed as “palpable tosh and nonsense” .
(11) If they want to sit down and argue with me, some of them are talking out their backsides, a load of tosh and I'm not accepting it.
(12) CBR just hiked interest rates by 150bp - The military actions in Crimea are not without significant costs forRussua March 3, 2014 Katie Martin (@katie_martin_FX) Tim Ash, Standard Bank: "Complete tosh to think that all this aggressive action by Moscow will have no effect on the Russian economy" March 3, 2014 9.03am GMT Our Ukraine Liveblog My colleague Haroon Siddique is live-blogging the Ukraine crisis in detail again this morning, here: Ukraine crisis: ‘Russia in control of Crimea’ - live updates Russia has ‘complete operational control’ - US official ‘Russian armoured vehicles lining up across border’ Lavrov says China’s views coincide with Russia’s 8.53am GMT The cost of insuring Russia’s government debt against default has jumped to a nine-month high following Putin’s incursion into Crimea, and Russian bonds have also dropped in value.
(13) If you are used to being able to just make up any old tosh and have your marks eagerly repeat it with bells on, it no doubt becomes habit forming.
(14) It started in earnest in 2012, when comedian Daniel Tosh was accused of suggesting it would be funny if a female member of the audience was gang raped there and then.
(15) When Daniel Tosh was told by a female punter that "rape jokes are never funny" he asked the audience, "Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?
(16) He added: “The argument that grammar schools create social mobility is, in the words of the Ofsted chief inspector, ‘tosh and nonsense’,” he added.
(17) Ac-Arg(HCl)-NHMe was prepared by chromatography of the NG-TosH derivative on Dowex 44 (in Cl- form).
(18) "Some are talking out of their backsides, a load of tosh," he said.
(19) The New York Times critic wrote, "Peck plays with considerable skill, also avoiding in his acting the romantic tosh of the writing."
(20) All accounts of its heyday in the early-60s give the impression of Dodd's Brentford Road base being a kind of West Indian Stella Street: Lee Perry recording Delroy Wilson, Peter Tosh introducing Leonard Dillon of the Ethiopians, and Horace Andy queuing for a Sunday morning audition, all while Dodd was helping to piece together the Skatalites.