How to Use bamboozled in a Sentence

bamboozled

adjective
  • But Behar was still a little bamboozled.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
  • She’s been canceled, kidnapped, and bamboozled, happy to tell anyone who’ll listen, and who’ll excuse her typos.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
  • The southpaw is renowned for his hand speed, his eye-catching footwork and his ability to find angles for punches, which can leave opponents bamboozled.
    Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • The extra attention may have helped push the song to the top, but the way two programs presented Swift's appearances left some fans feeling bamboozled.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • This whole thing seems staged, planned, finagled, massaged, bamboozled, lollygagged, and all sorts of other long, silly-sounding words that may not necessarily apply to this situation.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025

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