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Synonyms & Antonyms of bluffing
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bluffing
verb
present participle of bluff
Synonyms & Antonyms of bluffing (Entry 2 of 2)
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 for bluffing
- bamboozling,
- beguiling,
- buffaloing,
- burning,
- catching,
- conning,
- cozening,
- deceiving,
- deluding,
- duping,
- faking out,
- fooling,
- gaffing,
- gammoning,
- gulling,
- having,
- having on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxing,
- hoodwinking,
- hornswoggling,
- humbugging,
- juggling,
- misguiding,
- misinforming,
- misleading,
- snookering,
- snowing,
- spoofing,
- stringing along,
- suckering,
- sucking in,
- taking in,
- tricking
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2
to present a false appearance of
- the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead
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“Bluffing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluffing. Accessed 23 Jan. 2022.
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