humbuggery

Etymology

From humbug + -ery.

humbuggery means trickery; deception. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

HUMBUGGERY — [Noun] Deliberately deceptive or false behavior and talk; the practice of elaborate trickery or hollow pretense. From humbug (meaning "hoax" or "nonsense", of uncertain origin) + the noun-forming suffix -ery (denoting a class or kind of behavior). Unlike "fraud," which implies a grave, prosecutable deceit for gain, or "shenanigans," which suggests playful mischief, humbuggery is the theater of insincerity performed for the petty currency of social esteem. It is the politician's tearless, rehearsed lament for a cause he privately scorns, the glossy catalog selling a lifestyle of unattainable serenity, and the ornate, gilded frame surrounding a canvas of pure banality—a polished shell of meaning designed to conceal that nothing is inside, the most common theft being that of legitimacy itself.

noun

trickery; deception“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.”