bunco

How To Use bunco In A Sentence

• I never mingle with the crowds that are being buncoed [sic] in the big department stores of Los Angeles.
• They were from all over the map -- "complete hooey" from _Minority Report_, "buncombe" from _The New Republic_, "as truthful as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" from an article on pedagogy in the _Sun_. Asimov's Science Fiction
• I just can't stay in the room and see you buncoed that way.
• Neither General Kearney nor Mason had much respect for this land of "buncombe," but assumed the true doctrine that Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
• Specially after I poked around and learned the Madame's qualifications for horoscope-readings consist of 19 convictions for fraud, bunco scams, and operating illegal ‘games of chance’ in Atlantic City.
• The profiteers are very resourceful in buncoing Mr. Block.
• Buncombe was delighted to encounter a sea-faring friend, and insisted on taking George Jernam down to River View Cottage to eat what he called a homely bit of dinner. Run to Earth A Novel
• Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize. North Carolina and its Resources.
• What is the origin of the term "buncombe" as popularly used? Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
• The St. Regis tribe of Indians of Franklin County claim that they were buncoed by the last legislature, and are so incensed that an outbreak at the reservation is feared.