bluffer

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Separately, it emerged at an ongoing inquiry that Mr Williams had described a campaigner who tried to draw attention to faults in Horizon software in 2015 as a "bluffer".

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2024

He was a bluffer, implying he advised people he didn’t, and a leaker, ratting out his allies in pursuit of his own agenda.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2016

A bluffer, a gambler… he’d rather do it the hard way.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2012

He'd been a bit of a bluffer at his first musical conservatoire.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2010

Feeney talked and acted like a bluffer all the time, but nevertheless Carmody began to suspect that, after all, Tim might have something in the hole to beat him.

From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.