1 This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
2 Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
3 For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug.
4 Yes, there's no humbug about her.
5 But you needn't have been such a humbug.
6 That music has taken the vanity out of me as Rome took it out of her, and I won't be a humbug any longer.
7 'Now that, my child,' continued Miss Mowcher, rubbing all the time as busily as ever, 'is another instance of the refreshing humbug I was speaking of.'
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 8 One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard.
9 It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.
10 I said, what a set of humbugs we were in general, and I showed you the scraps of the Prince's nails to prove it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 11 Well; all sorts of humbugs profess morality.