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Separately on Thursday, the inquiry heard how Mr Williams had referred to a former sub-postmaster and campaigner, Tim McCormack, as a "bluffer" in a 2015 email.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2024

He was a bluffer, implying he advised people he didn’t, and a leaker, ratting out his allies in pursuit of his own agenda.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2016

A bluffer, a gambler… he’d rather do it the hard way.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2012

He'd been a bit of a bluffer at his first musical conservatoire.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2010

By his ingenious little scheme of circulating his own money, strictly in his own domestic circle, he had elected himself to the bluffer class, and he felt strangely light-hearted.

From Skinner's Dress Suit by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)