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bamboozling

  • present participle
    of bamboozle.
    bamboozle
    verb (used with object)
    to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed byinto ).

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Now, the pitch that ruled the 1980s is out of hibernation—and bamboozling hitters everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

This worked to an extent, especially in terms of bamboozling the media into misreporting what he actually said.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024

Given the momentum Rangers had going into it, the one-sided nature was bamboozling.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

Much of the criticism of Ms. Swift, meanwhile, seems tinged with condescension, suggesting that a 33-year-old female pop star is a gullible naïf, ripe for bamboozling by political operators.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

But they had succeeded in playing a very simple trick, bamboozling the Mark commander, attacking his sentries and escaping by night.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams