কৌতুক বা Deceive

humbugged's Usage Examples:

Audit Commissioners" and claimed the councillors had been "bamboozled and humbugged by their paid officer".

" Wells exhorts his readers not to "be humbugged for a moment into believing that this is the dingy lot of all mankind.

that he is kept at work for nothing, or, as the nautical phrase is, 'humbugged,' no sloth could make less headway.

Wellington is dismayed at being "humbugged" by Napoleon.

reluctantly and in a very fragmentary condition, for, having been shamefully humbugged by their prophet, they felt humiliated and unhappy.

Wellington remarked: "Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

Wellington shut the door and said, "Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

Some museum-goers believed they were being "humbugged" by Barnum though.

They only want to be humbugged.

Vilatte explained that a member of his clergy, who he noted was also "humbugged and swindled", introduced him to the impostor, the alias Lord Cortenay.

humbugged's Meaning':

trick or deceive

Synonyms:

tarradiddle; bosh; tommyrot; hokum; nonsense; twaddle; tosh; drool; bilgewater; boloney; baloney; bunk; nonsensicality; meaninglessness; taradiddle;

Antonyms:

lose;