deceit vs humbug

deceit

noun
  • The state of being deceitful or deceptive. 

  • An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. 

  • An act of deceiving someone. 

  • The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury. 

humbug

noun
  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern. 

  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • A fight. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite. 

  • Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial. 

intj
  • Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! 

verb
  • To fight; to act tough. 

  • To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. 

How often have the words deceit and humbug occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )