Thesaurus / bamboozle
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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.
CAM NEWTON SAYS HE FELT ‘BAMBOOZLED’ BY PATRIOTS OVER FIVE-DAY SEPARATION THAT PRECEDED HIS RELEASEMATT BONESTEELSEPTEMBER 10, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHis name is used to bamboozle the people, to despoil them, and to make them patient asses under their burdens.
FLOWERS OF FREETHOUGHTGEORGE W. FOOTEHe saw he could not fool or bamboozle me in the slightest degree.
SHADOW, THE MYSTERIOUS DETECTIVEPOLICE CAPTAIN HOWARDThis wandering about I considered necessary in order to delay and perhaps bamboozle any police dog put on my track.
13 DAYSJOHN ALAN LYDE CAUNTERIt has rather cynically been said that governments are of two kinds—bamboo and bamboozle.
SIX LETTERS FROM THE COLONIESROBERT SEATONHe would sit on a log with a gypsy, and bamboozle him with lies made for the purpose, then thrash him for not believing them.
MARY MARSTONGEORGE MACDONALDAnother word, bamboozle, has been a sore difficulty with lexicographers.
THE SLANG DICTIONARYJOHN CAMDEN HOTTENIt is not so with us artists; they could not bamboozle us in this way.
GERFAUT, COMPLETECHARLES DE BERNARDIn vain did the philosopher try to bamboozle me into the belief that "it was lard."
GINGER-SNAPSFANNY FERNBut many modern adventuresses have been able to bamboozle the mighty.
MADEMOISELLE OF MONTE CARLOWILLIAM LE QUEUXWORDS RELATED TO BAMBOOZLE
- baffles
- bamboozles
- beats
- bewilders
- caps
- cheats
- circumvents
- confuses
- cons
- deceives
- defeats
- defrauds
- dupes
- end-runs
- fakes out
- finagles
- foxes
- gooses
- gulls
- has
- hoaxes
- hoodwinks
- leads astray
- makes a fool of
- makes a monkey of
- misleads
- outdoes
- outfoxes
- outgenerals
- outguesses
- outjockeys
- outmaneuvers
- outthinks
- overreaches
- pulls a fast one on
- puts one over on
- runs circles around
- swindles
- takes in
- tops
- tricks
- worsts
- baffled
- bamboozled
- beat
- bewildered
- capped
- cheated
- circumvented
- confused
- conned
- deceived
- defeated
- defrauded
- duped
- end-runned
- faked out
- finagled
- foxed
- goosed
- gulled
- had
- hoaxed
- hoodwinked
- led astray
- made a fool of
- made a monkey of
- misled
- outdid
- outfoxed
- outgeneraled
- outguessed
- outjockeyed
- outmaneuvered
- outthinked
- overreached
- pulled a fast one on
- put one over on
- ran circles around
- swindled
- took in
- topped
- tricked
- worsted
- bamboozle
- beguile
- bend the rules
- bilk
- burn
- caboodle
- chisel
- con
- deceive
- defraud
- do a number on
- double-cross
- double-deal
- dupe
- finagle
- fleece
- flimflam
- fudge
- hit below the belt
- hoodwink
- hose
- mislead
- pull something funny
- rip off
- rook
- sandbag
- scam
- screw
- shaft
- stack the cards
- stretch the rules
- sucker
- swindle
- trick
- victimize
- addles
- amazes
- bamboozles
- beats
- befogs
- befuddles
- bemuses
- bewilders
- buffalos
- complicates
- confounds
- discombobulates
- disconcerts
- distracts
- disturbs
- dumbfounds
- flabbergasts
- floors
- flummoxes
- foils
- frustrates
- gets to
- mystifies
- nonpluses
- obscures
- perplexes
- poses
- profundicates
- psyches out
- puts off
- rattles
- snows
- stirs
- stumbles
- stumps
- throws
- bamboozle
- beat
- bilk
- clip
- con
- cozen
- deceive
- defraud
- diddle
- do
- dupe
- extort
- fleece
- flimflam
- fool
- frame
- fudge
- gouge
- gull
- hoodwink
- overcharge
- pluck
- pull a fast one
- put one over on
- rip off
- rook
- run a game on
- sandbag
- scam
- sell a bill of goods
- set up
- shaft
- stiff
- sting
- sucker
- take for a ride
- take to the cleaners
- trick
- trim
- victimize
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