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Bamboozle

verb
(past & past part. bamboozled; pres. part. bamboozling)
1.
Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.  Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow.






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"Bamboozle" Quotes from Famous Books



... to stuff us you don't know why she's gone?" said Maria. "No, thank you, it's not good enough. You can't bamboozle us this time." ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson

... incredible that a criminal of this man's type had been able to engineer himself into a place of trust in an institution of such influence as the Interprovincial Loan & Savings Company, to play fast and loose with its credit as he had done, and to bamboozle its directorate. The fact that he had been made to convict himself must plead excuse for the subterfuge in which they had been forced to indulge. It had been a most disagreeable experience and the Honorable Milton Waring was glad that ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse



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