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bluffing

verb , present participle of bluff

Synonyms and Antonyms of bluffing

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 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

Words Related to bluffing

kidding, putting on, teasing

bleeding, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling

Phrases Synonymous with bluffing

doing a number on, leading one down the garden path (also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of bluffing

debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking

disclosing, divulging, telling, unveiling

disabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning

Antonyms of bluffing

2 to present a false appearance of

the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead

Synonyms of bluffing

acting, affecting, assuming, counterfeiting, dissembling, faking, feigning, passing (for), pretending, professing, putting on, shamming, simulating

Words Related to bluffing

dissimulating, impersonating, letting on, masquerading, playacting, playing, posing

forging, imitating

camouflaging, concealing, disguising, masking

Phrases Synonymous with bluffing

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