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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

See More

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

See More

2

as in pretended

to present a false appearance of

the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead

Synonyms & Similar Words

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