Thesaurus / bamboozle
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His 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 QUEUXA government may bamboozle it or dodge it, but it cannot openly oppose it.
THE FRUITS OF VICTORYNORMAN ANGELLSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 17, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO BAMBOOZLE
- allure
- bait
- bamboozle
- beguile
- blandish
- butter
- cajole
- charm
- coax
- con
- decoy
- egg on
- ensnare
- entrap
- get around
- honey
- hook
- influence
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- lead on
- lure
- maneuver
- massage
- oil
- overdo it
- persuade
- play up to
- rope in
- seduce
- snow
- soap
- soften up
- string along
- stroke
- sweet talk
- tempt
- toll
- urge
- wheedle
- work over
- baffle
- bamboozle
- beat
- bewilder
- cap
- cheat
- circumvent
- con
- confuse
- deceive
- defeat
- defraud
- dupe
- end run
- fake out
- figure out
- finagle
- fox
- goose
- gull
- gyp
- have
- hoax
- hoodwink
- jip
- juke
- lead astray
- mislead
- outdo
- outfox
- outgeneral
- outguess
- outjockey
- outmaneuver
- outthink
- overreach
- swindle
- take in
- top
- trick
- worst
- 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
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