bamboozle
Example Sentences
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These Americans are not asleep, tricked, bamboozled, conned, or somehow not aware of what they are doing and the implications of such collective evil and meanness.
From Salon
Mr. Santos bamboozled those voters, they said, and it was up to Congress to rectify matters.
From Washington Times
The former chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said Mr Johnson was "bamboozled" by scientific data.
From BBC
Due to the intense tribalism of Republicans, this kind of bamboozling goes on all day, every day within the conservative community.
From Salon
In extracts from his diary that were relayed to the inquiry, Vallance said Johnson was “bamboozled” by the graphs and data and that watching him “get his head round stats is awful.”
From Seattle Times
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