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bluffed

verb , past tense of bluff

Synonyms and Antonyms of bluffed

1 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 of bluffed

bamboozled, beguiled, buffaloed, burned (or burnt), caught, conned, cozened, deceived, deluded, duped, faked out, fooled, gaffed, gammoned, gulled, had, had on [chiefly British], hoaxed, hoodwinked, hornswoggled, humbugged, juggled, misguided, misinformed, misled, snookered, snowed, spoofed, strung along, sucked in, suckered, took in, tricked

Words Related to bluffed

kidded, put on, teased

bled, cheated, chiseled (or chiselled), defrauded, diddled, euchred, fleeced, flimflammed, gypped, hustled, mulcted, rooked, shortchanged, skinned, squeezed, stuck, stung, swindled

Phrases Synonymous with bluffed

did a number on, led one down the garden path (also led one up the garden path), pulled one's leg, pulled the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of bluffed

debunked, exposed, revealed, showed up, uncloaked, uncovered, unmasked

disclosed, divulged, told, unveiled

disabused, disenchanted, disillusioned

Antonyms of bluffed

2 to present a false appearance of

the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead

Synonyms of bluffed

acted, affected, assumed, counterfeited, dissembled, faked, feigned, passed (for), pretended, professed, put on, shammed, simulated

Words Related to bluffed

dissimulated, impersonated, let on, masqueraded, playacted, played, posed

forged, imitated

camouflaged, concealed, disguised, masked

Phrases Synonymous with bluffed

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