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humbug, n. 1. hoax, fraud, wile, ruse, sham, Archaic. chouse; deception, delusion, imposition, imposture, artifice, pretense, humbuggery; dissemblance, misrepresentation, falsehood, lie, fabrication, fiction, dodge, blind, feint, shift, Inf. song and dance, Inf. story; swindle, cheat, trickery, trick, confidence game, SI. con game, Inf flimflam, SI. rip-off.
2. imposter, fake, fraud, empiric, charlatan, mountebank, humbugger, Inf. quack, Inf. phony, Australian, bunyip; pretender, feigner, malingerer, masquerade, deceiver, dissembler, inveigler, wolf in sheep's clothing; trickster, bamboozler, swindler, cheater, chiseler, bilker, diddler, sharpie, shark, fast talker, crook, confidence man, SI. con man, SI. flimflam man. See - cheat (def. 1).
3. flummery, trumpery, stuff, Inf. hokum, SI. bull, SI. applesauce, SI. eyewash; nonsense, bumkum or buncombe, baloney, Inf bosh, U.S. SI. blah, SI. bunk, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. SI. tosh; rubbish, trash, hogwash, Inf. truck, Inf. rot, SI. tripe, SI. garbage, SI. crap, SI. crock, Dial, culch. See - nonsense (def. 2).
-v.4. delude, mislead, bamboozle, SI. hornswog-gle, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, take [s.o.] in, cully, cozen, bluff, Inf. buffalo; trick, hoodwink, dupe, gull, fool, chouse; feign, sham, malinger, pretend, dissemble, misrepresent; cheat, swindle, defraud, fleece, rook, bilk, take advantage of, Inf diddle, Inf. do, Inf. finagle, SI. burn. See - cheat (defs. 3, 4).
humdinger, n. Slang. Inf. beaut, SI. lulu, SI. lolla-palooza, Inf. dilly, SI. doozy, Inf. rip-snorter, SI. corker, SI. pip; SI. something, SI. something else or something else again, SI. hot stuff, Inf. knockout, SI. winner; SI. daisy, Inf. dandy, Inf. honey, SI. dream.
humdrum, adj. uneventful, monotonous, repetitious, routine, unvaried, undiversified, unvarying, unchanging, undeviating; dull, tedious, tiresome, boring, boresome, wearisome; prosaic, prosy, matter-of-fact, uninteresting, ho-hum, SI. dead, dry, dry-as-dust, unexciting, uninspiring; mediocre, second-rate, halfbaked, so-so, fair, fair to middling; Inf. O.K., all right, SI. no big deal, SI. no biggie, SI. nothing great, Inf. nothing to write home about, SI. nothing or nothing special; ordinary, run-of-the-mill, common, commonplace, everyday, household, familiar; banal, platitudinous, hackneyed, trite, stock, set; tasteless, bland, insipid, jejune, flat, vapid, U.S. SI. blah, SI. for the birds.
humid, adj. muggy, Inf. close, sticky, clammy, moist, damp; sultry, sweltering, sudorific, diaphoretic; steamy, dank, soggy, watery, wettish, dewy; foggy, vaporous, vaporific, misty, drizzly, dripping, rainy.
humidity, n. 1. humidness, dampness, moisture, dew, damp, wetness, wateriness, sogginess; mugginess, sultriness, steaminess, dankness, clamminess; steam, mist, fog, vapor.
2. relative humidity, absolute humidity, dew point.
humiliate, v. humble, mortify, bringdown. See - hum
ble (defs. 7-12).
humiliated, adj. 1. mortified, humbled, meekened, made to eat humble pie; shamed, disgraced, dishonored, reproached; discredited, disfavored, SI. in the doghouse; debased, degraded, abased, vitiated.
2. belittled, disparaged, deprecated, derogated, deflated, decried; reduced, lowered, depressed, devalued, depreciated.
3. insulted, affronted, abused, ill-treated, maltreated, slighted; outraged, scandalized.
4. slurred, aspersed, libeled, slandered, denigrated, defamed; smirched, besmirched, smeared, stained, tarnished, branded, stigmatized.
5. crushed, broken, destroyed, routed, discomfited, overwhelmed, obliterated, smashed, conquered, vanquished.
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