bamboozle
verb (used with object)
was bamboozling
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past progressiveof bamboozle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Given the momentum Rangers had going into it, the one-sided nature was bamboozling.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
“Chris said it was really important that there be something about this person that was likable or intelligent because the people that he was bamboozling are some of the most successful people in the country.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
And I thought that man a Juggins," said Haigh, "and imagined I was blarneying and greening him ad libitum, whilst all the time he was bamboozling me—me—me, gentlemen.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
He was bamboozling her, twisting her round his finger^ as one might say.
From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng
Sir John told the supposed Brooke his whole “course of wooing,” and how nicely he was bamboozling the husband.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
