In its verb form, to be humbugged is to be deceived or be the victim of a hoax.
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After I bah-humbugged 20163 and declared 2015 a dud for prestige films, 2016 – for all the suffering and heartbreak it hath wrought outside the cinema – brought forth so many great films that a Top 10 list just wasn't going to cover it.
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The people, as Barnum has said, love to be humbugged, and are quite ready to pay tribute to the political boss and spoilsman.
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Publicity material for Nutt, c. 1862 Commodore Nutt made his debut at Barnum's American Museum in February 1862. He was a great success. Some museum-goers believed they were being "humbugged" by Barnum though.
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"In Australia, they are more anxious to find out how things are done. In America, they don't want to know. They only want to be humbugged."The Age, 30 November 1899 page 6 Eliason's Melbourne season at St George's Hall, opening in mid-April, lasted a record 11 weeks.
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They gave it reluctantly and in a very fragmentary condition, for, having been shamefully humbugged by their prophet, they felt humiliated and unhappy. In such circumstances people do not like to talk.. Upon returning to the United States, many of Adams' former followers joined the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In June 1868, Adams and his wife left Palestine and sailed to England. Twenty of the original colonists remained in Palestine, some of them permanently.
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The Prince's Chief of Staff, Baron Rebecque, dispatches a messenger to retrieve the Prince from Brussels, while Sharpe carries orders to the troops nearest to the crossroads at Quatre Bras, commanded by Prince Bernhard Carl of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Although the French are checked as evening falls, Sharpe knows they will launch a much stronger attack in the morning, and rides to Brussels to warn Wellington. Sharpe barges into the Duchess of Richmond's ball and informs Wellington. Wellington is dismayed at being "humbugged" by Napoleon.
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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, son of the Duke of Devon; that "he 'took in' the clergy of Milwaukee"; that "Donkin never belonged to any 'community' in our Church"; but, Vilatte did not explain why he ordained Donkin, who he thought was a cleric. Vilatte wrote that later Donkin "posed as a Bishop in Cleveland." According to Smit "the orders of ' in general, and specifically those of [...] Donkin, [...] and of all those consecrated by them, are not recognized, and all connections with these persons is formally denied" by the .
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The council's auditors also received strong criticism when the report on the matter was tabled before the House of Assembly. The Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser labelled the Green's Plains council "the worst in the colony in the eyes of the Audit Commissioners" and claimed the councillors had been "bamboozled and humbugged by their paid officer". It was abolished from 5 January 1888 following the passage of the District Councils Act 1887, which established a much broader District Council of Kadina covering the Green's Plains area. The abolition was met with continued local opposition, with residents arguing that they had "no sympathy with Wallaroo or Kadina", and variously suggesting as alternatives that they should stand alone or be joined with some combination of the District Council of Kulpara, District Council of Clinton and District Council of Ninnes.
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The crossroads at Quatre Bras therefore became a strategic position, since if the French held this interchange, they could prevent Wellington's forces from moving south-eastward along the Nivelles-Namur road towards the Prussians, where Napoleon was planning to engage von Blücher on 16 June at Ligny. Although the Coalition commanders were receiving intelligence, Napoleon's planning was initially successful. Wellington remarked: "Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me." While Wellington's instructions at the start of the campaign were to defend Brussels from the French, he was not sure what route Napoleon's army would follow; he also received (false) reports of a flanking maneuver through Mons to the southwest. Wellington first received reports of the outbreak of hostilities at around 15:00 on 15 June from the Prince of Orange, a Coalition commander.
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