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As usual, they’re backing their promise with lies and other humbug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

If holiday clutter has you more bah humbug than merry, these tips from professional organizers around Seattle might make your life easier before and after the holidays, and well into the new year.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

However, far from feeling bah humbug about having to do their job while on holiday, they all love being able to take the stress and strain away from others.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022

In her more measured than humbug review, Bahr said “Spirited” “comes up short as a musical,” but “is still pretty enjoyable.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

Hype and humbug make Barnum's museum a roaring success.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

“He used these humbugs, as he called them, to create excitement and bring people in,” Wilson says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

Joined by his wife Katie, he plunges into another assignment, as he tries to get the "spirit of Christmas" back from the dastardly humbugs.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

In Poe’s lifetime, a handful of well-connected American scientists advanced plans to build national institutions to distinguish “real working men in the way of science” from charlatans, quacks, and humbugs.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

Heroic detective, pilot, poet, magician and victor over all bullies and humbugs, animal or human, Freddy remains a model to us all.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020

A reporter crowed, “It has become a settled fact that Burr’s and the Buffalo doctors’ theories are the silliest humbugs of the day.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“Because,” he added, “Although I ain’t been in the city long, I ain’t to be humbugged; it won’t do for you to try to put off your confounded mock turtles on me!”

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018

The sooner America knows we are not going to be humbugged the better it is.

From Time Magazine Archive

P. T. Barnum recorded the fact that the American people delight in being humbugged, and such is still the national mood.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had humbugged myself into thinking I was on my way back to Australia.

From Tiny Luttrell by Hornung, Ernest William

They who suffer themselves to be humbugged and fleeced by him have their own stupidity to thank for it.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von

Stranded in his "useless position" at Transport, Reith seethed while Churchill put together his "rotten" wartime coalition full of "humbugging and sycophantic" ministers.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am to be shot out, and the old brute’s going to preach me a humbugging canting sermon first.”

From Haviland's Chum by Mitford, Bertram

“One-fifty a month, and we can have a straight lease—no humbugging about clauses.”

From Polly in New York by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

It was no use humbugging ourselves into thinking we knew where it was, when no one could possibly know.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by Newman, John Henry

Wouldn’t I just like to be going bang off to the front to have a slap at old Kreli instead of humbugging around here looking after stock.

From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram