Synonyms of bluffed

bluffed

verb

past tense of bluff

1

as in tricked

to cause to believe what is untrue

I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricked
• fooled
• deceived
• misled
• duped
• snookered
• suckered
• teased
• conned
• hoodwinked
• kidded
• bamboozled
• buffaloed
• gulled
• deluded
• cheated
• juggled
• humbugged
• gaffed
• cozened
• hornswoggled
• misinformed
• stung
• hoaxed
• sucked in
• beguiled
• caught
• spoofed
• misguided
• strung along
• snowed
• had
• burned
• gammoned
• faked out
• had on
• took in
• pulled one's leg
• swindled
• euchred
• rooked
• pulled the wool over one's eyes
• hustled
• defrauded
• led one down the garden path
• fleeced
• did a number on
• stuck
• mulcted
• put on
• flimflammed
• shortchanged
• diddled
• squeezed
• bled
• chiseled
• skinned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undeceived
• exposed
• revealed
• uncovered
• unmasked
• told
• debunked
• disclosed
• divulged
• showed up
• unveiled
• disillusioned
• disabused
• uncloaked
• disenchanted

2

as in pretended

to present a false appearance of

the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pretended
• assumed
• simulated
• acted
• affected
• feigned
• passed (for)
• dissembled
• counterfeited
• shammed
• faked
• concealed
• professed
• posed
• made believe
• forged
• put on
• played
• masqueraded
• imitated
• disguised
• impersonated
• camouflaged
• dissimulated
• masked
• let on
• playacted
• feinted
• malingered

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bluffed

Any time the Patriots succeed with a new blitz or bluffed blitz in the first quarter, offenses expect to see it again later in the game. — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026

On the second interception, Simmons said Delaware bluffed as if an all-out blitz was coming before falling back into coverage and making the pick. — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025