Usually means: Deceiving or misleading through falsehoods.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word humbugging:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. humbugging: Merriam-Webster
  2. humbugging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humbugging: Collins English Dictionary
  4. humbugging: Vocabulary.com
  5. humbugging: Wordnik
  6. humbugging: Wiktionary
  7. Humbugging, humbugging: Dictionary.com
  8. Humbugging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Humbugging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. humbugging: FreeDictionary.org
  11. humbugging: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humbugging: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. humbugging: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. humbugging: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (humbugging)

▸ noun:  An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).

Similar:
humbugism, humbuggism, bilking, gulling, swindling, bamboozle, duping, finagling, rooking, hoodwinking, more...

Opposite:
authenticating, validating, confirming

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Similar:
humbugism, humbuggism, bilking, gulling, swindling, bamboozle, duping, finagling, rooking, hoodwinking, more...

Opposite:
authenticating, validating, confirming



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