humbuggery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Both see Leviathan more as a photograph than a metaphor — a reality veiled by rhetoric — and thereby claim a position of epistemic privilege, a Realpolitik, a discourse shorn of humbuggery and pretense."
- "Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona."
Etymology
From humbug + -ery.