bamboozle
- v conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well
- Bragged the Daily Mirror: "Turpin became world champion without any of the hokum that Americans have used to bedazzle and bamboozle their opponents before the fight.
- There was a systematic attempt to bamboozle us.
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