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bamboozle

verb as in fool; cheat

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“To find out I had to sit out, that’s when I kind of felt bamboozled, because y’all told me to go,” he said, adding that he “absolutely” would not have taken the trip had he known it would cause him to miss five days of practice.

Or when he said the Clinton camp was trying to “bamboozle” or “hoodwink” voters?

His name is used to bamboozle the people, to despoil them, and to make them patient asses under their burdens.

He saw he could not fool or bamboozle me in the slightest degree.

This wandering about I considered necessary in order to delay and perhaps bamboozle any police dog put on my track.

It has rather cynically been said that governments are of two kinds—bamboo and bamboozle.

He would sit on a log with a gypsy, and bamboozle him with lies made for the purpose, then thrash him for not believing them.

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bamboozle, such as: befuddle, deceive, delude, dupe, hoodwink, and mystify.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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