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Was he aware of the narratives celebrating the successful humbuggery perpetrated by showmen exhibiting bleached elephants?
The white elephant in London: an episode of trickery, racism and advertising
Yet while 'tis the season to be off one's trolley, the greatest secular threat to Christmas comes from the creeping nonsense of politically correct bah humbuggery.
Stocking up on Christmas reality
Humbuggery and Manipulation: The Art of Leadership.
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Welty correctly identifies this as pretentious and prejudiced humbuggery whose main rhetorical device is question begging.
On William Faulkner
What in the fershlugginer humbuggery is going on here?
Shannon McNally, "Down and Dirty", Jukebox Sparrows
Boston critic John Sullivan Dwight and others denounced such humbuggery, while praising de Meyer's pianism, if not his repertoire, which tended toward flashy bravura pieces, including fantasies on popular and operatic tunes of the day--music sure to please crowds, but less satisfying to the cognoscenti.
From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland

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