Synonyms for bamboozlement
- chicanery
- deception
- fraud
- scam
- swindle
- trickery
- artifice
- baloney
- bunco
- con
- cozening
- deceit
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fake
- fix
- flimflam
- frame
- gyp
- hoax
- hoaxing
- humbug
- hustle
- imposture
- jazz
- jive
- plant
- put-on
- racket
- rip-off
- sell
- sham
- spoof
- sting
- stunt
- whitewash
- wrong
- bill of goods
- con game
- cover up
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- hanky-panky
- run around
- shady deal
- shell game
- snow job
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Antonyms for bamboozlement
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WORD ORIGIN
1703, originally a slang or cant word, perhaps Scottish from bombaze "perplex," related to bombast, or French embabouiner "to make a fool (literally 'baboon') of." Related: Bamboozled; bamboozling. As a noun from 1703.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR BAMBOOZLEMENT
cheat
nountrick- artifice
- baloney
- bamboozlement
- bill of goods
- bunco
- chicanery
- con
- con game
- cover up
- cozening
- deceit
- deception
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- fix
- flimflam
- frame
- fraud
- gyp
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hoaxing
- humbug
- hustle
- imposture
- jazz
- jive
- plant
- put-on
- racket
- rip-off
- run around
- scam
- sell
- shady deal
- sham
- shell game
- snow job
- spoof
- sting
- stunt
- swindle
- trickery
- whitewash
- wrong
fraud
nountrickery, deception- artifice
- bamboozlement
- barratry
- blackmail
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- craft
- deceit
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duping
- duplicity
- extortion
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwinking
- hustle
- imposture
- line
- misrepresentation
- racket
- scam
- sell
- shakedown
- sham
- sharp practice
- skunk
- smoke
- song
- song and dance
- spuriousness
- sting
- string
- swindle
- swindling
- treachery
victimization
nouncheat- artifice
- baloney
- bamboozlement
- bill of goods
- bunco
- chicanery
- con
- con game
- cover up
- cozening
- deceit
- deception
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- fix
- flimflam
- frame
- fraud
- gyp
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hoaxing
- humbug
- hustle
- imposture
- jazz
- jive
- plant
- put-on
- racket
- rip-off
- run around
- scam
- sell
- shady deal
- sham
- shell game
- snow job
- spoof
- sting
- stunt
- swindle
- trickery
- whitewash
- wrong
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